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(申请人提供)：大学校园性侵是一个严重的社会问题，对受害者和整个社会都会造成严重的负面后果。经历过儿童性虐待的女性是成年后性侵的特别高风险群体。不幸的是，校园内的风险预防计划对这一高风险群体并不是特别有效。心理困扰、性行为增加和饮酒是三个这样的变量，它们都一直与有儿童性虐待史的女性成人性侵风险的增加有关，并可能为制定有效的预防干预措施提供机会。在有儿童性虐待史的妇女中，性行为和饮酒有时可能起到缓解紧张和调节负面情绪的作用。该项目将采用纵向设计，跟踪一大批(约1000名)不同文化背景的女性，为期12个月(有5个数据收集点)，以调查心理困扰的经历、继发性儿童性虐待以及使用性和酒精来调节负面情绪是否会增加大学女性经历预期性侵的风险。此外，该项目结合了一种新的基于实验室的行为预测类比，即使用性来调节负面情绪的可能性。将考察行为预测模拟与当前基于问卷的测量之间的趋同，以及根据对行为模拟的反应预测预期成人性侵可能性的能力。纳入行为预测类比是为了阐明使用性来调节负面情绪可能增加性侵犯风险的具体过程。了解性行为和酒精使用的功能，以及痛苦和特定影响调节策略可能相互作用以增加成人性侵风险的过程，将为降低风险规划努力提供有关干预目标的关键信息。