Explicating alcohol's role in acquaintance sexual assault: complementary perspectives and convergent findings.
This article summarizes the proceedings of a symposium presented at the 2004 meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There were four presentations and a discussant. The symposium was co-chaired by Tina Zawacki and Jeanette Norris. The first presentation was made by Jeanette Norris, who found that alcohol consumption and preexisting alcohol expectancies affected women's hypothetical responses to a vignette depicting acquaintance sexual aggression. The second presentation was made by Joel Martell, who reported that alcohol-induced impairment of executive cognitive functioning mediated the effect of intoxication on men's perceptions of a sexual assault vignette. In the third presentation, Antonia Abbey found that the experiences of women whose sexual assault involved intoxication or force were more negative than were the experiences of women whose sexual assault involved verbal coercion. The fourth presentation was made by Tina Zawacki, who reported that men who perpetrated sexual assault only in adolescence differed from men who continued perpetration into adulthood in terms of their drinking patterns and attitudes toward women. William H. George discussed these findings in terms of their implications for theory development and prevention programming.
Zawacki
Tina
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Department of Psychology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USA. tzawacki@utsa.edu
Norris
Jeanette
J
George
William H
WH
Abbey
Antonia
A
Martell
Joel
J
Stoner
Susan A
SA
Davis
Kelly Cue
KC
Buck
Philip O
PO
Masters
N Tatiana
NT
McAuslan
Pamela
P
Beshears
Renee
R
Parkhill
Michele R
MR
Clinton-Sherrod
A Monique
AM
D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*