Walsh Kate, Drotman Sara, Lowe Sarah R
Departments of Psychology and Gender and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1202 W Johnson St., Madison, WI, 53718, USA.
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2022 Feb;51(2):821-831. doi: 10.1007/s10508-021-02021-9. Epub 2021 Nov 12.
Understanding how individuals conceptualize and communicate sexual consent is critical to sexual health and has important implications for the prevention of sexual assault. This study used a data-driven (vs. a theoretical) approach to understand how students' internal feelings of willingness (i.e., internal consent) and behavioral communication of consent (i.e., external consent) cluster together within sexual encounters. Using data from 610 college students (72% female) who reported on their most recent sexual encounter, latent profile analysis revealed five distinct consent profiles. Most students reported willing encounters that involved the use of several external consent cues (68.9%), a small group reported low levels of both internal and external consent (3.8%), and three groups (27.3% altogether) reported encounters with complex patterns of internal and external consent. Demographic and encounter-level differences were observed across profiles. Programming that trains students to attend to their own internal desires in addition to external consent behaviors could improve emotional health and shift social norms about sexual communication.
了解个体如何概念化和交流性同意对于性健康至关重要，并且对预防性侵犯具有重要意义。本研究采用数据驱动（而非理论）的方法来理解学生在性接触中内在的意愿感受（即内在同意）和同意的行为交流（即外在同意）是如何聚集在一起的。利用610名大学生（72%为女性）报告其最近一次性接触的数据，潜在剖面分析揭示了五种不同的同意模式。大多数学生报告的自愿接触涉及使用多种外在同意线索（68.9%），一小部分学生报告内在和外在同意水平都较低（3.8%），还有三组学生（总共27.3%）报告的接触具有内在和外在同意的复杂模式。不同模式之间存在人口统计学和接触层面的差异。除了外在同意行为外，培训学生关注自身内在欲望的项目可能会改善情绪健康，并改变有关性交流的社会规范。
