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我访谈（ACASI）对500名年轻成年男性进行两波社区调查，阐明饮酒与性侵犯行为之间的关系，以减少性侵犯的发生率。大约一半的性侵犯涉及犯罪者，受害者或两者的酒精消费。大多数对性侵犯犯罪者的研究都集中在被监禁的罪犯或男大学生身上，他们在秘密调查中承认，他们使用了某种类型的语言或身体力量，或妇女的醉酒，违背妇女的意愿，从妇女那里获得性。这项研究将解决一个重要的差距，在我们的理解，通过检查的患病率和病因的性侵犯在一个有代表性的社区样本的年轻，单身男子。几个有前途的理论模型的元素已经结合起来，以最大限度地预测性侵犯犯罪的跨部门和前瞻性。根据以往的理论和实证研究，将从三个层面审查酒精的作用：1）作为一个模型中过去性侵犯行为的预测因子，该模型包括一些以前与性侵犯行为有关的个性，态度和经验变量，2）在一个模型中作为未来性侵犯犯罪的预测因子，在该模型中，初始访谈时的回答用于预测一年随访期间的性侵犯犯罪，（3）在具体情况层面，将涉及酒精的性侵犯的特征与不涉及酒精的性侵犯进行比较。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一个关于约会经历的面对面面试。根据主要研究者和其他研究人员过去的研究，自14岁起的性侵犯行为将通过描述强迫性行为类型的行为特定问题进行评估（例如，使用口头威胁，按住她），而不将这些行为定为犯罪行为。一年后将进行后续面试。.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青年男子的个性特征，态度，酒精使用，以及与他们愿意使用某种类型的武力从妇女获得性的过去的经验。这些知识可用于制定预防和治疗方案，从而减少未来性侵犯的发生。

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.