Latent Profiles among Sexual Assault Survivors: Understanding Survivors and Their Assault Experiences

Autor/inn/en	Macy, Rebecca J.; Nurius, Paula S.; Norris, Jeanette
Titel	Latent Profiles among Sexual Assault Survivors: Understanding Survivors and Their Assault Experiences
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 22 (2007) 5, S.520-542 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260506298839
Schlagwörter	Profiles; Investigations; Females; Sexual Abuse; Drinking; Welfare Recipients; Resistance (Psychology); Empowerment; College Students; Aggression; Victims of Crime; Individual Characteristics; At Risk Persons; Expectation; Context Effect; Urban Areas; Child Abuse; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Untersuchung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Sexueller Missbrauch; Trinken; Sozialhilfeempfänger; Sozialhilfeempfängerin; Resistenz; Collegestudent; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Risikogruppe; Expectancy; Erwartung; Urban area; Stadtregion; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Korrelation
Abstract	Little guidance exists about how to tailor empowerment and resistance sexual assault programming to be responsive to varying groups of women. Using an investigation of 415 college women who completed a self-administered survey about a range of sexually aggressive experiences by a known male assailant, this investigation tested for distinct multivariate profiles of contextual factors among sexually assaulted women to discern how these factors may differentially combine to influence women's vulnerability to sexual assault. We applied latent profile analysis (LPA) to determine meaningful subgroups of women based on interrelationships among factors that contextualize women's vulnerability to sexual assault, including prior victimization, alcohol consumption, relationship expectancies of the assailant, and assertive precautionary habits. LPA established four significantly distinct multivariate profiles of substantively different groups of women. Group difference tests reinforced the findings and aided in group profile interpretations. Implications for the development of tailored resistance and empowerment programs are discussed. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10