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Responding in Their Best Interests

Contextualizing Women’s Coping With Acquaintance Sexual Aggression

Rebecca J. Macy

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paula S. Nurius

University of Washington

Jeanette Norris

University of Washington

Using an investigation of 202 college women who completed a survey about coping with sexual aggression from a known male assailant, the authors examined assailant behaviors, along with women’s victimization history, alcohol use, positive relationship expectancies, and sexual assertiveness, to clarify how these factors shape women’s responses to acquaintance sexual aggression. Multivariate regression analyses showed that these factors and assailant actions accounted uniquely and cumulatively for women’s responding. Rape avoidance and resistance training programs can benefit by using a two-pronged approach: by targeting factors that impede and promote women’s assertion and by helping women anticipate and respond to assailant actions.

Key Words: coping • prevention • sexual aggression

Violence Against Women, Vol. 12, No. 5, 478-500 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801206288104
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