School of Psychology, Mathews Building, The University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney NSW, Australia.
School of Psychological Sciences, Redmond Barry Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC, Australia.
Aggress Behav. 2018 Jan;44(1):40-49. doi: 10.1002/ab.21722. Epub 2017 Aug 3.
Research from a variety of disciplines suggests a positive relationship between Western cultural sexualization and women's likelihood of suffering harm. In the current experiment, 157 young men were romantically rejected by a sexualized or non-sexualized woman then given the opportunity to blast the woman with loud bursts of white noise. We tested whether the activation of sexual goals in men would mediate the relationship between sexualization and aggressive behavior after romantic rejection. We also tested whether behaving aggressively toward a woman after romantic rejection would increase men's feelings of sexual dominance. Results showed that interacting with a sexualized woman increased men's sex goals. Heightened sex goal activation, in turn, predicted increased aggression after romantic rejection. This result remained significant despite controlling for the effects of trait aggressiveness and negative affect. The findings suggest that heightened sex goal activation may lead men to perpetrate aggression against sexualized women who reject them.
来自不同学科的研究表明，西方文化的性化与女性遭受伤害的可能性之间存在正相关关系。在当前的实验中，157 名年轻男性被一个性化或非性化的女性浪漫拒绝，然后有机会对该女性发出响亮的白噪声冲击。我们测试了男性的性目标激活是否会在浪漫拒绝后性化和攻击行为之间的关系中起中介作用。我们还测试了在浪漫拒绝后对女性采取攻击行为是否会增加男性的性支配感。结果表明，与性化女性互动会增加男性的性目标。反过来，性目标的激活又预示着浪漫拒绝后的攻击性增强。尽管控制了特质攻击性和消极情绪的影响，这一结果仍然显著。研究结果表明，性目标激活的增加可能导致男性对拒绝他们的性化女性实施攻击。
