Alcohol's Role in Etiology of Sexual Assault Perpetration in a Community Sample

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议研究的目标是通过使用音频计算机辅助自访(ACASI)对500名年轻成年男性进行两波社区调查，阐明饮酒和性侵行为之间的关系，从而减少性侵犯的发生。大约一半的性侵犯涉及犯罪者或受害者饮酒，或两者兼而有之。大多数关于性侵肇事者的研究都集中在被监禁的犯罪者或在秘密调查中承认他们使用了某种类型的言语或身体力量，或者是女性的醉酒，以违背女性的意愿从女性那里获得性行为的男性大学生。这项研究将通过在一个具有代表性的年轻单身男性群体样本中检验性侵犯的发病率和病因，来解决我们理解中的一个重要差距。几个有希望的理论模型的要素已经被结合起来，以便最大限度地横向和前瞻性地预测性侵行为。基于过去的理论和实证研究，酒精的作用将在三个层面上进行检验：1)作为过去性侵犯行为的预测因子，该模型包括一些以前被认为与性侵犯行为有关的个性、态度和经验变量；2)作为未来性侵犯行为的预测因子，在该模型中，最初访谈的反应被用来预测一年的随访间隔期间的性侵犯行为；以及3)在特定情况的水平上，涉及酒精的性侵犯的特征将与不涉及酒精的性侵犯行为进行比较。密歇根大学调查研究中心将获得底特律大都市家庭的随机数字拨号样本。符合条件的个人将被要求参加关于约会经历的面谈。根据首席调查员和其他研究人员过去的研究，从14岁开始的性侵行为将通过具体行为问题进行评估，这些问题描述了强迫性行为的类型(例如，使用言语威胁，将她按住)，而不将行为标记为犯罪行为。一年后将进行后续面谈。。对妇女的暴力行为是一个重要的公共卫生问题。这项研究将提供有关年轻男性的个性特征、态度、饮酒和过去的经历的信息，这些信息与他们愿意使用某种类型的武力从女性那里获得性行为有关。这些知识可以用来制定预防和治疗计划，从而减少未来发生的性侵犯事件。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed research is to reduce the incidence of sexual assault by explicating the relationship between alcohol consumption and sexual assault perpetration in a two wave community survey of 500 young adult men using audio computer-assisted self-interviews (ACASI). Approximately half of all sexual assaults involve alcohol consumption by the perpetrator, victim, or both. Most research with perpetrators of sexual assault has focused on either incarcerated offenders or male college students who acknowledge in confidential surveys that they have used some type of verbal or physical force or the woman's intoxication to obtain sex from a woman against her will. This study will address an important gap in our understanding by examining the prevelance and etiology of sexual assault in a representative comunity sample of young, single men. Elements of several promising theoretical models have been combined in order to maximize prediction of sexual assault perpetration cross-sectionally and prospectively. Based on past theoretical and empirical research, the role of alcohol will be examined at three levels: 1) as a predictor of past sexual assault perpetration within a model that includes a number of personality, attitudinal, and experience variables that have previously been linked to sexual assault perpetration, 2) as a predictor of future sexual assault perpetration within a model in which responses at the initial interview are used to predict sexual assault perpetration during the one year follow-up interval, and 3) at the situation-specific level, the characteristics of alcohol-involved sexual assaults will be compared to sexual assaults that do not involve alcohol. A random digit dialing sample of Metropolitan Detroit households will be obtained by the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan. Eligible individuals will be asked to participate in an in- person interview on dating experiences. Based on past research by the principal investigator and other researchers, sexual assault perpetration since the age of 14 will be assessed through behaviorally-specific questions that describe types of forced sex (e.g., use of verbal threats, held her down) without labeling the acts as criminal behavior. A follow up interview will be conducted one year later. . Violence against women is an important public health problem. This study will provide information about young men's personality characteristics, attitudes, alcohol use, and past experiences that are linked to their willingness to use some type of force to obtain sex from women. This knowledge can be used to develop prevention and treatment programs, thereby reducing the future occurrence of sexual assault.