Alcohol's Role in Sexual Assault: Development of Virtual Reality Simulation Proxy

酒精在性侵犯中的作用：虚拟现实模拟代理的开发

• 批准号: 8385389
• 负责人: Antonia Abbey
• 金额: $ 28.8万
• 依托单位: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-10 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8385389
• 关键词: Acquaintances; Acute; Address; Adult; Aggressive behavior; Alcohol consumption; Alcohols; American; Anal Sex; Behavior; Characteristics; Coercion; Cognitive; Commit; Consent; Data; Development; Environment; Etiology; Evaluation; Female; Focus Groups; Forcible intercourse; Future; Goals; Healthy People 2020; Heterosexuals; Human; Intervention; Interview; Justice; Laboratories; Language; Legal; Location; Measures; Mental Health; Oral Sex; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Population; Prevention; Proxy; Randomized; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Review Literature; Risk Factors; Role; Series; Sex Behavior; Simulate; Surveys; Survivors; Testing; Touch sensation; Vagina; Woman; demographics; design; drinking; male; meetings; men; perpetrators; pressure; research study; response; sex; sexual assault; sexual violence; sexually active; simulation; sobriety; statistics; university student; virtual; virtual reality; willingness

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Approximately half of all sexual assaults involve alcohol consumption by the perpetrator, victim, or both. The goal of the proposed research is to develop a virtual reality simulation that can be used as a proxy for perpetration of sexual aggression in alcohol administration studies. Self-report surveys conducted with victims and perpetrators have provided a wealth of important information about alcohol's role in sexual assault; however, causality cannot be established from correlational designs. In alcohol administration studies, participants can be randomly assigned to drink conditions, thereby allowing causal conclusions to be made. The major challenge for experimentalists is to develop proxies for sexual assault that have strong construct validity and experimental realism. Virtual reality environments provide the opportunity for participants to become immersed in the simulated environment; thus, participants are expected to behave in ways and to make choices that closely relate to their behavior outside the laboratory. The Specific Aims of the proposed research involve developing a virtual reality simulation with a virtual woman (an embodied female agent) that male participants rate as realistic and involving. The script of the interaction will follow that of a prototypic acquaintance sexual assault situation, allowing male participants to make choices about sexual activities in which they want to engage and (if they choose) to repeatedly try to make the female agent engage in sexual activity despite her protests. Most participants will be young, single, sexually active, heterosexual men to correspond to the demographics of most perpetrators. Focus groups and an iterative series of pilots that include cognitive interviews will be conducted with men and women to develop the simulation. Then a preliminary assessment of construct validity will be conducted by comparing self-reports of past sexual aggression, common risk factors, and responses to another proxy with participants' responses during the simulation. Also, an initial evaluation of the simulation's usefulness in alcohol administration research will be conducted by comparing the responses and actions of intoxicated and sober participants during the simulation. The findings from this study will serve as pilot data for a R01 proposal that will formally evaluate the paradigm's construct validity and usefulness in identifying men predisposed to commit sexual assault while intoxicated. Future studies can also alter various aspects of the simulation to increase generalizability to different populations. The long-term goal is to develop prevention and treatment interventions, thereby reducing rates of sexual aggression and addressing Healthy People 2020 goals. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Sexual assault occurs at extremely high rates and more than half involve alcohol consumption. The goal of the proposed research is to develop a virtual reality simulation of a potential sexual assault situation that can be used in experimental research. This will allow the effects of alcohol consumption on sexual aggression to be examined under controlled conditions, thereby increasing confidence that differences found between drinkers and nondrinkers are due to alcohol, not other factors.

描述(由申请人提供)：大约一半的性侵犯涉及犯罪者、受害者或两者都饮酒。这项拟议的研究的目标是开发一种虚拟现实模拟，可以用来作为酒精管理研究中性侵犯行为的代理。对受害者和肇事者进行的自我报告调查提供了大量关于酒精在性侵犯中的作用的重要信息；然而，因果关系不能从相关设计中确定。在酒精管理研究中，参与者可以被随机分配到饮酒条件，从而做出因果关系的结论。对于实验者来说，主要的挑战是开发出具有很强的结构效度和实验现实主义的性侵代理。虚拟现实环境为参与者提供了沉浸在模拟环境中的机会；因此，参与者应该以与他们在实验室外的行为密切相关的方式行事并做出选择。这项拟议研究的具体目标包括开发一种虚拟现实模拟，其中包括一名男性参与者认为真实和参与的虚拟女性(具身女性特工)。互动的脚本 将遵循典型的熟人性侵情况，允许男性参与者就他们想从事的性行为做出选择，并(如果他们选择)反复试图让女性特工不顾她的抗议进行性行为。大多数参与者将是年轻、单身、性活跃、异性恋的男性，以符合大多数肇事者的人口统计数据。将对男性和女性进行焦点小组和包括认知访谈在内的一系列迭代试点，以开发模拟。然后，通过比较过去性攻击的自我报告、常见的危险因素和对另一个代理人的反应与参与者在模拟过程中的反应，对结构效度进行初步评估。此外，还将通过比较醉酒和清醒的参与者在模拟过程中的反应和行动，对模拟在酒精管理研究中的有效性进行初步评估。这项研究的结果将作为R01提案的试点数据，该提案将正式评估该范式的结构有效性和在识别醉酒时有性侵倾向的男性方面的有用性。未来的研究还可以改变模拟的各个方面，以增加对不同人群的普适性。长期目标是制定预防和治疗干预措施，从而降低性侵害率，并实现2020年健康人目标。 与公共健康相关：性侵犯的发生率极高，超过一半与饮酒有关。这项拟议的研究的目标是开发一种可用于实验研究的潜在性侵情景的虚拟现实模拟。这将允许在受控条件下检查饮酒对性侵犯的影响，从而增强人们的信心，即饮酒者和不饮酒者之间的差异是由于酒精，而不是其他因素。