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ERIC Number: EJ404874
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Publication Date: 1989
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Discriminant Analysis of Risk Factors for Sexual Victimization among a National Sample of College Women.
Koss, Mary P.; Dinero, Thomas E.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v57 n2 p242-50 Apr 1989
Examined accuracy with which rape and lesser sexual assaults were predicted among 2,723 college women. Fourteen risk variables operationalized three vulnerability hypotheses: vulnerability-creating traumatic experiences, social-psychological vulnerability, and vulnerability-enhancing situations. Only traumatic experiences variables clearly improved over base rates in identifying rape victims. Majority of sexually victimized women could not be differentiated from nonvictims. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, College Students, Females, Higher Education, National Surveys, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Victims of Crime
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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