Sexual Revictimization: Affect Regulation as a Mediator (AREA)

性再受害：作为调解者的影响监管（AREA）

• 批准号: 7073202
• 负责人: HOLLY K ORCUTT
• 金额: $ 21.75万
• 依托单位: NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7073202
• 关键词: Internet; alcoholic beverage consumption; behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; child abuse; clinical research; emotions; female; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human subject; mental health epidemiology; psychological stressor; psychological tests; questionnaires; rape; sex abuse; sex behavior; university student; women' s health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Sexual assault on college campuses is a significant social problem and results in significant negative consequences to the victim and society as a whole. Women who have experienced child sexual abuse are a particularly high risk group for later adult sexual assault. Unfortunately, risk-reduction prevention programs on campus have not been particularly effective with this higher risk group. Psychological distress, increased sexual activity, and alcohol use are three such variables that have been both consistently linked to increased risk of adult sexual assault among women with a history of child sexual abuse and may provide an opportunity for developing effective preventive interventions. Among women with a history of child sexual abuse, sexual activity and alcohol use may sometimes serve the function of reducing tension and regulating negative affect. This project will employ a longitudinal design which will follow a large (approximately 1000) culturally-diverse sample of women across 12 months (with five data collection points) in order to investigate whether the experience of psychological distress, secondary to child sexual abuse, and the use of sex and alcohol to regulate negative affect increases college women's risk of experiencing prospective sexual assault. In addition, this project incorporates a novel laboratory-based behavioral forecasting analogue of likelihood to use sex to regulate negative affect. The convergence between the behavioral-forecasting analogue and current questionnaire-based measurement will be examined as well as the ability to predict likelihood of prospective adult sexual assault based on responses to the behavioral analogue. The inclusion of the behavioral-forecasting analogue is designed to elucidate the specific processes through which use of sex to regulate negative affect may increase risk of sexual assault. Understanding the function of sexual behavior and alcohol use as well as the processes through which distress and particular affect regulation strategies may interact to increase risk for adult sexual assault will provide critical information about intervention targets for risk-reduction programming efforts.

描述（由申请人提供）：大学校园性侵犯是一个重大的社会问题，会给受害者和整个社会带来重大的负面影响。经历过儿童性虐待的女性是成年后遭受性侵犯的高危人群。不幸的是，校园内的降低风险预防计划对于这一高风险群体来说并不是特别有效。心理困扰、性活动增加和饮酒是三个变量，它们始终与有儿童性虐待史的妇女遭受成人性侵犯的风险增加有关，并可能为制定有效的预防干预措施提供机会。对于有儿童性虐待史的女性，性活动和饮酒有时可以起到减轻紧张和调节负面情绪的作用。该项目将采用纵向设计，在 12 个月内（​​有五个数据收集点）跟踪大量（约 1000 名）文化多元化的女性样本，以调查继发于儿童性虐待的心理痛苦经历以及使用性和酒精来调节负面情绪会增加女大学生遭受性侵犯的风险。此外，该项目还采用了一种新颖的基于实验室的行为预测类似物，即使用性来调节负面情绪的可能性。将检查行为预测类似物与当前基于问卷的测量之间的趋同性，以及根据对行为类似物的反应预测未来成人性侵犯可能性的能力。纳入行为预测类似物的目的是为了阐明利用性来调节负面影响可能会增加性侵犯风险的具体过程。了解性行为和饮酒的功能，以及痛苦和特殊影响调节策略可能相互作用以增加成人性侵犯风险的过程，将为降低风险规划工作的干预目标提供重要信息。