Sexual Attitudes and Instructional Set Affect Estimates of Risk and Response Effectiveness |
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| Authors: | Elizabeth A. Yeater Richard J. Viken Richard M. McFall Lindsey R. Wagner |
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| Affiliation: | (1) University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA;(2) Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA;(3) Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Logan Hall, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1161, USA |
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| Abstract: | Two hundred and eleven undergraduate men and women were assigned to different instructional set conditions and asked to rate (1) the sexual risk depicted in a set of written items describing problem situations undergraduate women might face when dating or interacting socially with men, and (2) the effectiveness of responses to these situations, described by a set of response codes. Results revealed that sexual attitudes and instructional set were the strongest predictors of both ratings. Gender did, however, predict risk ratings for stranger and authority figure situations, with women rating these situations as more risky than men. In addition, women assigned to the risk instructional set condition rated refusal responses as more effective in decreasing risk than did men in the same condition. In contrast, women assigned to the popularity instructional set condition rated the same refusal responses as less effective in increasing popularity than did men in that condition. |
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| Keywords: | response effectiveness gender differences sexual victimization sexual attitudes |
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