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Psychological Consequences of Sexual Victimization Resulting From Force, Incapacitation, or Verbal Coercion

University of Louisiana-Lafayette

Maria Testa

University at Buffalo, New York

Terri L. Messman-Moore

Miami University

Recently, incapacitated rape has emerged as a distinct type of sexual victimization. However, little is known about its longer-term psychological consequences. Two studies compare the psychological consequences of incapacitated rape to those of forcible rape and verbal coercion. Generally, the traumatic impact of incapacitated rape was intermediate to that of verbal coercion and forcible rape; however, there were domains (e.g., current perceived trauma and emotional impact) in which incapacitated and forcible rape had a similar impact and other domains (e.g., attributions of responsibility) in which incapacitated rape was similar to verbal coercion. This research suggests that sexual assault researchers might benefit from separately examining forcible and incapacitated rape.

Key Words: posttraumatic stress • rape • sexual victimization

This version was published on August 1, 2009

Violence Against Women, Vol. 15, No. 8, 898-919 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801209335491


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