The Roles of Acute Intoxication, Emotional Arousal, and Emotion Regulation on Men's Sexual Aggression Intentions

 描述(申请人提供)：33%的男性报告从14.1岁起就实施了某种形式的性侵犯--不受欢迎的性接触，包括性侵犯和强奸。酒精是一个重要因素：高达66%的性侵犯发生在犯罪者喝酒的时候。2酒精中毒通过扰乱认知过程和抑制控制来合成性侵犯的可能性。36醉酒还阻碍个人利用更高级别认知过程的能力，包括 适应性情绪调节。尽管在临床和发展心理学中出现了关于情绪和情绪调节的研究22，但在大学和社区样本中，关于情绪唤醒和情绪调节对性攻击行为的贡献的研究有限。因此，本研究的重点是情绪唤醒以及影响性攻击的情绪调节和情境因素。情绪调节(ER)--发现、控制、调节和管理情绪状态的能力--可能在性侵犯行为中起着以前未被研究过的作用。当体验情绪唤醒时，使用不适应的调节策略(如压抑)而不是适应性策略(如认知重新评价)的男性更有可能表现出与约会对象的心理和身体攻击意图。3虽然情绪调节的自我报告措施得到了很好的验证，但情绪唤醒和ER的心理生理学测量为伴随这些过程的生理过程提供了更大的特异性。5使用假设性爱模拟情景的酒精管理实验允许对酒精对男性性攻击意图的影响做出因果推断。本研究提出了一种创新的设计，使用酒精给药方案以及情绪唤醒和情绪调节的心理生理学和自我报告测量来考察调节过程和急性醉酒对性攻击意图的影响。这项拟议的研究将对涉及性侵犯的情绪调节因素的研究领域提供有价值的见解。此外，它还将为一位才华横溢、积极进取、拥有令人印象深刻的研究和临床经验以及出色的学术记录的年轻研究员提供至关重要的培训。在拟议的项目和培训补助金中提供的培训和指导机会将对申请者发展成为独立和多产的临床科学家至关重要。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Thirty-three percent of men report committing some form of sexual aggression-unwanted sexual contact including sexual assault and rape-since the age of 14.1 Alcohol is a significant factor: up to 66% of sexual assaults occur when the perpetrator has been drinking.2 Alcohol intoxication compounds sexual aggression likelihood through its disruption of cognitive processes and inhibitory control.36 Intoxication also impedes the individual's ability to utilize higher order cognitive processes, including those necessary for adaptive emotion regulation. Despite emerging research on emotion and emotion regulation in clinical and developmental psychology22, limited research has been conducted on the contribution of emotional arousal and emotion regulation to sexual aggression perpetration in college- and community-samples. Thus the present study focuses on emotional arousal and the emotional regulatory and situational factors that influence sexual aggression. Emotion regulation (ER)-the capacity to detect, control, modulate, and manage emotional states4-may have a contributing role in sexual aggression perpetration that has previously been unstudied. When experiencing emotion arousal, men who use maladaptive regulatory strategies (e.g. suppression,) rather than adaptive strategies (e.g. cognitive reappraisal) are more likely to display psychological and physical aggression intentions with a dating partner.3 While self-report measures of emotion regulation are well- validated, psychophysiological measures of emotional arousal and ER provide greater specificity into the physiological processes accompanying these processes.5 Alcohol administration experiments employing hypothetical eroticized analog scenarios allow for making causal inferences about alcohol's effects on men's sexual aggression intentions.7 Therefore, the present study proposes an innovative design using an alcohol administration protocol and psychophysiological and self-report measures of emotional arousal and emotion regulation to examine the influences of regulatory processes and acute intoxication on sexual aggression intentions. The proposed study will provide valuable insight into the understudied arena of emotional regulatory factors involved in sexual aggression. Moreover, it will provide vital training to a talented and motivated young researcher with impressive research and clinical experiences and a strong academic record. The training and mentorship opportunities afforded in the proposed project and training grant will be crucial for the applicant's development into an independent and productive clinical scientist.