Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, 109 Williams Hall (0436), Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, 4111 Pictor Lane, Psychology Building 99, Suite 320, Orlando, FL 32816, United States.
Department of Psychological Science, University of Mary Washington, 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, United States.
Psychiatry Res. 2018 May;263:15-21. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.02.029. Epub 2018 Feb 16.
Unacknowledged rape, defined as when an individual experiences an event that meets a legal or empirical definition of rape but the individual does not label it as such, is prevalent. Research examining predictors of rape acknowledgment is needed. Sexual assertiveness may be an important variable to consider, as an individual's typical behavior during sexual situations may influence rape acknowledgment. To assess the indirect effect of rape myth acceptance on rape acknowledgment through sexual refusal assertiveness, an online survey of 181 female rape survivors was conducted. The indirect effects of two types of rape myths (He didn't mean to and Rape is a deviant event) were significant and positive. Specifically, acceptance of these two rape myths was negatively related to sexual refusal assertiveness, which was negatively associated with likelihood of rape acknowledgment. The results of this study indicate that sexual refusal assertiveness is associated with lower likelihood of rape acknowledgment among rape survivors. As a result, it appears that, under certain circumstances, women high in rape myth acceptance may be more likely to acknowledge rape when it results in decreased sexual refusal assertiveness.
未被承认的强奸，是指当一个人经历了一个符合法律或经验定义的强奸事件，但该人没有将其标记为强奸，这种情况很普遍。需要研究预测强奸承认的因素。性自信可能是一个需要考虑的重要变量，因为一个人在性情况下的典型行为可能会影响强奸的承认。为了通过性拒绝自信评估强奸接受对强奸承认的间接影响，对 181 名女性强奸幸存者进行了在线调查。两种类型的强奸神话（他不是故意的和强奸是一种反常事件）的间接影响是显著的和积极的。具体来说，对这两种强奸神话的接受与性拒绝自信呈负相关，而性拒绝自信与强奸承认的可能性呈负相关。这项研究的结果表明，性拒绝自信与强奸幸存者中较低的强奸承认可能性有关。因此，在某些情况下，当性拒绝自信降低时，接受强奸神话较高的女性可能更有可能承认强奸。
