TY  - GEN
A1  - Schuster, Isabell
A1  - Tomaszewska, Paulina
A1  - Marchewka, Juliette
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
T1  - Does question format matter in assessing the prevalence of sexual aggression?
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - As research on sexual aggression has been growing, methodological issues in assessing prevalence rates have received increased attention. Building on work by Abbey and colleagues about effects of question format, participants in this study (1,253; 621 female; 632 male) were randomly assigned to one of two versions of the Sexual Aggression and Victimization Scale (SAV-S). In Version 1, the coercive tactic (use/threat of physical force, exploitation of the inability to resist, verbal pressure) was presented first, and sexual acts (sexual touch, attempted and completed sexual intercourse, other sexual acts) were presented as subsequent questions. In Version 2, sexual acts were presented first, and coercive tactics as subsequent questions. No version effects emerged for overall perpetration rates reported by men and women. The overall victimization rate across all items was significantly higher in the tactic-first than in the sexual-act-first conditions for women, but not for men. Classifying participants by their most severe experience of sexual victimization showed that fewer women were in the nonvictim category and more men were in the nonconsensual sexual contact category when the coercive tactic was presented first. Sexual experience background did not moderate the findings. The implications for the measurement of self-reported sexual aggression victimization and perpetration are discussed.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 844 
KW  - self-report measures
KW  - experiences survey
KW  - risk-factors
KW  - victimization
KW  - rape
KW  - assault
KW  - women
KW  - perpetration
KW  - reliability
KW  - responses
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54663
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-546632
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 4
ER  -