The Relationship Between a History of Victimization and Resistance Strategies Employed in a Recent Sexual Assault: Examining the Effects of Emotion Dysregulation, Psychological and Emotional Barriers, and Alcohol

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kraft, Kathryn E.
Language:	English
Published:	Ohio University / OhioLINK 2015
Subjects:	Clinical Psychology sexual assault sexual violence resistance emotion dysregulation
Online Access:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429879633

id	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ohiou1429879633
record_format	oai_dc
spelling	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ohiou14298796332021-08-03T06:30:45Z The Relationship Between a History of Victimization and Resistance Strategies Employed in a Recent Sexual Assault: Examining the Effects of Emotion Dysregulation, Psychological and Emotional Barriers, and Alcohol Kraft, Kathryn E. Clinical Psychology sexual assault sexual violence resistance emotion dysregulation Sexual assault is a relatively common problem among young women in today’s society (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000; Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). Investigating resistance women use to defend themselves against sexual assault is critical to address this issue, given assertive resistance is associated with rape avoidance (Ullman & Knight, 1992). A history of sexual victimization has been associated with nonforceful resistance and decreased assertive resistance during a more recent sexual assault experience (Gidycz, Wynsberghe, Edwards, 2008; Katz, May, Sorensen, & DelTosta, 2010). Research has yet to explain this association, nor has it examined the impact of other victimization histories. A number of psychological and emotional barriers to resistance, as well as alcohol use during the time of a sexual assault, have been predictive of less assertive, and nonforceful resistance (Abbey, Clinton, McAuslan, Zawacki, & Buck, 2002; Harrington & Leitenberg, 1994; Macy, Nurius, & Norris, 2006; Stoner, Norris, George, Davis, & Masters, 2007). Emotion dysregulation resulting from previous victimization has been theoretically linked to resistance strategies (Marx, Heidt, & Gold, 2005), but has yet to be empirically investigated. The purpose of the current study was to determine what variables (emotion dysregulation, alcohol use, psychological and emotional barriers to resistance) explain the relationship between various histories of interpersonal victimization and less assertive, more nonforceful, and immobile resistance. Findings illustrated that emotion dysregulation, as well as various psychological and emotional barriers, such as anger, sadness, confidence, shock, and perceptions of alcohol intoxication as a barrier to resistance, were influential in explaining the relationship between a different histories of interpersonal victimization and resistance to a more recent sexual assault experience. Findings are informative for future sexual assault prevention programming efforts designed for women with interpersonal victimization histories. 2015-08-25 English text Ohio University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429879633 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429879633 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
collection	NDLTD
language	English
sources	NDLTD
topic	Clinical Psychology sexual assault sexual violence resistance emotion dysregulation
spellingShingle	Clinical Psychology sexual assault sexual violence resistance emotion dysregulation Kraft, Kathryn E. The Relationship Between a History of Victimization and Resistance Strategies Employed in a Recent Sexual Assault: Examining the Effects of Emotion Dysregulation, Psychological and Emotional Barriers, and Alcohol
author	Kraft, Kathryn E.
author_facet	Kraft, Kathryn E.
author_sort	Kraft, Kathryn E.
title	The Relationship Between a History of Victimization and Resistance Strategies Employed in a Recent Sexual Assault: Examining the Effects of Emotion Dysregulation, Psychological and Emotional Barriers, and Alcohol
title_short	The Relationship Between a History of Victimization and Resistance Strategies Employed in a Recent Sexual Assault: Examining the Effects of Emotion Dysregulation, Psychological and Emotional Barriers, and Alcohol
title_full	The Relationship Between a History of Victimization and Resistance Strategies Employed in a Recent Sexual Assault: Examining the Effects of Emotion Dysregulation, Psychological and Emotional Barriers, and Alcohol
title_fullStr	The Relationship Between a History of Victimization and Resistance Strategies Employed in a Recent Sexual Assault: Examining the Effects of Emotion Dysregulation, Psychological and Emotional Barriers, and Alcohol
title_full_unstemmed	The Relationship Between a History of Victimization and Resistance Strategies Employed in a Recent Sexual Assault: Examining the Effects of Emotion Dysregulation, Psychological and Emotional Barriers, and Alcohol
title_sort	relationship between a history of victimization and resistance strategies employed in a recent sexual assault: examining the effects of emotion dysregulation, psychological and emotional barriers, and alcohol
publisher	Ohio University / OhioLINK
publishDate	2015
url	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429879633
work_keys_str_mv	AT kraftkathryne therelationshipbetweenahistoryofvictimizationandresistancestrategiesemployedinarecentsexualassaultexaminingtheeffectsofemotiondysregulationpsychologicalandemotionalbarriersandalcohol AT kraftkathryne relationshipbetweenahistoryofvictimizationandresistancestrategiesemployedinarecentsexualassaultexaminingtheeffectsofemotiondysregulationpsychologicalandemotionalbarriersandalcohol
_version_	1719438077252861952

The Relationship Between a History of Victimization and Resistance Strategies Employed in a Recent Sexual Assault: Examining the Effects of Emotion Dysregulation, Psychological and Emotional Barriers, and Alcohol

Similar Items