A Multilevel Protective Model of Sexual Violence Perpetration

描述(申请人提供)：对女性的性侵犯是一个严重的公共卫生问题。与她们的非大学同龄人和一般人口相比，年轻的大学女性被男性侵犯或强奸的情况不成比例，这表明需要采取有效的预防措施。关于了解实施性暴力的风险因素，已经进行了很多研究，但很少有研究侧重于保护性因素。此外，这些研究大多集中在施暴者的个体特征上，在一定程度上也关注了同伴的影响。生态系统模型认为，人类的行为直接或间接地受到位于多个环境水平上的各种背景因素的影响。在开发有效的预防计划之前，需要进行更多的研究，以加强我们对可改变因素的理解，这些因素来自环境的多个层面，除了将男性置于犯罪风险之外，这些因素还可以缓冲或保护男性免受侵犯。这项拟议的研究将定义佐治亚州男大学生性暴力行为的多层次保护模式。数据将从30所大学的随机概率比例样本中收集，这些因素反映了每所大学对性暴力的反应，遵守了联邦关于报告性暴力事件的规定，以及在18个月的研究期内校园环境的其他方面。数据还将从30名大学管理人员和1800名男性大学生的便利样本中在线收集。将使用广义分层线性建模来对数据进行建模。具体地说，该项目将1)描述考虑到个人、家庭、同伴和大学因素的性暴力行为的发展轨迹；2)确定人群中性暴力行为的多层次保护和风险因素；3)制定保护性暴力行为的多层次调解模型，考虑大学层面因素通过个人、家庭或同伴因素的直接和间接影响；以及4)定义保护性暴力行为的多水平调节模型，考虑大学层面因素对个人、家庭或同伴风险因素的缓冲作用。这一结果将被用来为应对大学校园女大学生性暴力的具体政策和项目建议提供参考。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The sexual assault of women is a serious public health problem. Young college women as compared to their non-college peers and the general population are disproportionately assaulted or raped by men indicating a need for effective preventive interventions. Much research has been conducted on understanding the risk factors for engaging in sexual violence perpetration, but little research has focused on protective factors. Moreover, most of this research has focused on individual-level characteristics of the perpetrators and to some degree on peer influences. The ecological systems model posits that human behavior is influenced directly and indirectly by various contextual factors located within multiple environmental levels. Before effective prevention programs can be developed, more research is needed that can enhance our understanding of modifiable factors drawn from multiple levels of the environment that buffer or protect men from perpetration in addition to those that place men at risk for perpetration. The proposed study will define a multilevel protective model of sexual violence perpetration among male college students in Georgia. Data will be collected from a random probability-to-proportionate size sample of 30 colleges on factors characterizing each college's response to sexual violence, compliance to federal mandates regarding reporting of sexual violence incidents, and other aspects of the campus setting across an 18-month study period. Data will also be collected online from 30 college administrators and from a convenience sample of 1800 male college students. Generalized hierarchical linear modeling will be used to model the data. Specifically, the project will 1) describe the developmental trajectory of sexual violence perpetration taking individual, familial, peer and college factors into account; 2) identify multilevel protective and risk factors for sexua violence perpetration in the population; 3) define multilevel mediation models for protection of sexual violence perpetration considering college-level factors' direct and indirect influence through individual, familial or peer factors; and 4) define multilevel moderation models for protection of sexual violence perpetration considering college-level factors buffering effects on individual, familial or peer risk factors. The results will be used to inform specific policy and program recommendations to respond to the sexual violence of female college students on college campuses.