Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Scand J Psychol. 2024 Aug;65(4):792-802. doi: 10.1111/sjop.13016. Epub 2024 Apr 17.
Sexual violence among adolescents represents a significant problem in society. In this study, we aimed to examine risk factors for sexual violence perpetration in adolescent men and victimization in adolescent women among a community sample of Norwegian high school students. The participants (560 men and 751 women, aged between 16 and 21 years) responded to online questionnaires covering physical and non-physical forms of sexual harassment and possible risk factors identified in the literature. Last year's prevalence rate of physical sexual perpetration reported by adolescent men was 7%. Comparably, the prevalence of physical sexual victimization reported by adolescent women was 30%. Path analyses suggest that sociosexuality was associated with adolescent men's sexual perpetration indirectly through sexual risk taking, alcohol intoxication, porn exposure, and sexual underperception that in turn was positively associated with undesirable non-physical solicitation from and toward women. In addition, rape stereotypes were associated with perpetration behavior in adolescent men. For adolescent women, sociosexuality was associated with being sexually victimized primarily through sexual risk behavior, alcohol intoxication, and sexual overperception. These factors were again positively associated with sexual derogation from adolescent women and solicitation from adolescent men. Prior sexual abuse victimization was only indirectly associated with victimization. The factors associated with adolescent men's perpetration and adolescent women's victimization were highly similar. Future work aimed at reducing sexual violence in adolescence within the educational context might find it more effective to specifically target non-physical forms of sexual harassment.
青少年中的性暴力是社会面临的一个重大问题。本研究旨在调查挪威高中生群体中，青少年男性实施性暴力和青少年女性遭受性暴力的风险因素。参与者（560 名男性和 751 名女性，年龄在 16 至 21 岁之间）通过在线问卷回答了有关身体和非身体形式的性骚扰以及文献中确定的可能风险因素的问题。去年报告的青少年男性实施身体性暴力的患病率为 7%。相比之下，报告的青少年女性身体性受害的患病率为 30%。路径分析表明，社交性与青少年男性的性侵犯行为呈间接相关，通过性冒险、酒精中毒、色情暴露和性认知不足，而这些因素又与女性的不良非身体性索取和针对女性的性侵犯行为呈正相关。此外，强奸刻板印象与青少年男性的侵犯行为有关。对于青少年女性，社交性与性受害主要通过性冒险行为、酒精中毒和性认知过度有关。这些因素再次与对青少年女性的性贬低和对青少年男性的性索取呈正相关。先前的性虐待受害仅与受害呈间接相关。与青少年男性侵犯行为和青少年女性受害相关的因素非常相似。未来旨在减少教育背景下青少年性暴力的工作可能会发现，有针对性地针对非身体形式的性骚扰会更有效。
