Sexual scripts and the acceptance of sexual aggression in Polish adolescents
- A study with 199 Polish adolescents explored the prominence of risk factors of sexual aggression as part of the sexual scripts for consensual sexual encounters and as predictors of the acceptance of sexual aggression. Distinguishing between general scripts, attributed to the age group as a whole, and individual scripts, reflecting personal standards, sexual scripts were linked to the normative endorsement of the risk factors and to the acceptance of sexual aggression. Individual scripts contained fewer risk factors of sexual aggression than general scripts. The more prominently the risk elements featured in the individual (but not in the general) scripts, the more they were seen as acceptable. For boys, risk scores in individual scripts were correlated with sexual behaviour and linked to the acceptance of sexual aggression via their normative endorsement. The distinction between individual and general scripts as guidelines for behaviour is discussed in terms of its significance for the understanding of sexual aggression.
| Author details: | Barbara KrahéORCiDGND, Paulina TomaszewskaORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2011.611034 |
| ISSN: | 1740-5629 |
| Title of parent work (English): | European journal of developmental psychology |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Place of publishing: | Hove |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2011 |
| Publication year: | 2011 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Tag: | Adolescence; Poland; Sexual aggression; Sexual scripts; Sexuality |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Number of pages: | 16 |
| First page: | 697 |
| Last Page: | 712 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
