The Effect of Alcohol and Masculinity on Sexual Aggression in Young Adult Men

项目总结 拟议的奖学金旨在为国际和平协会作为公共卫生科学家的职业生涯做准备。 研究酒精和人格结构在预测性攻击中的相互作用 打算将这项工作转化为干预措施。为了实现这一目标，培训计划侧重于 关于在以下领域发展专门知识：1)了解创建 饮酒与性侵犯的双向关系，2)建模和测量 实验室中的酒精中毒，3)进行模拟和测量的实验范式 青年男子的真实生活行为经历(例如性侵犯)，以及4)传播调查结果到 其他研究人员和在更大社区工作的人。要实现这些能力，并 在进一步的学术培训中，PI将接受密集的指导、培训和咨询 她的赞助人克里斯汀·约兹科夫斯基博士、共同赞助人林赛·哈姆博士和导师多米尼克·帕罗特博士。 私家侦探还将致力于她提出的项目，以了解醉酒的男人是否有自己的 受到威胁的男子气概将以性侵犯作为回应。先前的酒精给药研究 表明醉酒的男性更有可能从事性侵行为 与清醒的男人相比。利用实验范式操纵男子气概的研究 此外，当男性感到自己的男子气概 受到威胁。然而，还没有研究考察酒精中毒和对健康的威胁的综合影响。 性侵犯倾向上的男子气概。之前的研究是在这两种情况下进行的 概念表明，喝醉了的男人，如果他们的男子气概受到威胁， 比那些清醒和受威胁的人更有可能进行性侵犯；我们的目标是测试 这一假设是通过一项调查和一项亲自饮酒研究得出的。这项调查将包括一个 上述结构的医学筛查和评估(n=400名男性，21-30岁)。我们计划 评估男子气概对饮酒行为伴性侵犯的调节作用。对于 酒精管理研究，[青年男性(n=130，年龄21-30岁)]通过筛查招募将被 随机分配给摄入酒精(目标BAC0.08%)或保持清醒。参与者将搬家 通过两种模式：1)挑战男子气概(性别威胁模式)和2)提供男性 作为性侵犯的代理人的机会(性强迫模式)。与…一致 NIAAA的使命是包括环境因素以提供预防信息，这项研究作为 了解可能增加性行为风险的男女酒精相互作用的重要一步 攻击性。这些信息对于理解可能增加的因果链将是有价值的 男性性侵犯的风险，并告知预防计划。

PROJECT SUMMARY The proposed fellowship is designed to prepare the PI for a career as a public health scientist examining the interplay of alcohol and personality constructs in predicting sexual aggression with the intention of translating this work into interventions. To accomplish this goal, the training plan focuses on developing expertise in the following domains: 1) understanding mechanisms that create a bidirectional relationship between alcohol use and sexual aggression, 2) modeling and measuring alcohol intoxication in the laboratory, 3) conducting experimental paradigms that model and measure real life behavioral experiences of young men (e.g., sexual aggression), and 4) disseminating findings to other researchers and those working within the larger community. To achieve these competencies and further her academic training, the PI will have intensive mentorship, training, and consultation with her Sponsor, Dr. Kristen Jozkowski, Co-Sponsor, Dr. Lindsay Ham, and mentor, Dr. Dominic Parrott. The PI will also work on her proposed project to understand if men who are intoxicated and have their masculinity threatened will respond with sexual aggression. Previous alcohol administration research indicates that men who are intoxicated are more likely to engage in sexually aggressive behaviors compared to men who are sober. Research using experimental paradigms to manipulate masculinity have also established men are more likely to be aggressive when they feel their masculinity is threatened. However, no study has examined the combined effects of alcohol intoxication and threats to masculinity on proclivity to engage in sexual aggression. The previous research conducted with both constructs would suggest that men who are intoxicated and have their masculinity threatened would be more likely to engage in sexual aggression than those who are sober and threatened; we aim to test this hypothesis via a survey and an in-person alcohol administration study. The survey will consist of a medical screener and assessments of the aforementioned constructs (n=400 men, ages 21-30). We plan to assess the moderating role of masculinity on drinking behaviors with sexual aggression. For the alcohol administration study, [young men (n=130, ages 21-30)] recruited through the screener will be randomly assigned to either ingest alcohol (target BAC .08%) or remain sober. Participants will move through two paradigms: 1) that challenges masculinity (Gender Threat Paradigm) and 2) provides men an opportunity to engage in a proxy to sexual aggression (Sexual Imposition Paradigm). In line with NIAAA's mission to include environmental factors to inform prevention, this study serves as an important step in understanding male-to-female alcohol interactions that can increase risk of sexual aggression. This information would be valuable for understanding the causal chain that could increase men's risk of sexual aggression and inform prevention programs.