Coercive sexual behavior among Mexican-American college students.
This study investigates the self-reported occurrences of coercive sexual behavior among Mexican-American college students and compares the results with Anglo-American college students. College class standing, income, total number in the household, the presence of male siblings, and age were used as independent variables. Two hundred and forty-two female college students (53% Mexican-American, 47% Anglo-American), from introductory psychology classes completed a survey concerning violence occurring in dating situations. Being the victim of date rape was reported by 11.4% of the Mexican-American students, while Anglo-Americans reported 16.4% incidence, this was not a statistically significant difference. Unwanted sexual advances, other than intercourse, were reported by 36.6% of all female respondents, and 48.8% had experienced at least one kind of physical violence or threat in dating situations. Similarities with other researchers' findings and implications are reported.
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Community Clinic, Inc., San Antonio, TX 78212.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003068:Coercion; D003075:Coitus / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011902:Rape / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities; D014754:Violence