1998/01/01 by Paige Ouimette, Paige C. Ouimette, David Riggs · 23 citations
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Child Abuse and Trauma #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Human factors and ergonomics #Impulse (physics) #Impulse control #Injury prevention #Intimate Partner and Family Violence #Medical emergency #Medicine #Occupational safety and health #Poison control #Psychiatry #Psychology #Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies #Sexual behavior #Social psychology #Suicide prevention
paper · doi:10.1891/0886-6708.13.2.117
published in Violence and Victims 13(2), 117-130 (Springer Publishing Company)
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This study examined a psychological model of male sexually aggressive behavior toward women. Forty-seven men who reported completing or attempting acts that legally represent rape in most states and 56 nonviolent men completed measures assessing early home environment, attitudes regarding women and relationships, impulsive behaviors, and peers’ characteristics. As predicted, sexually aggressive behavior was associated with exposure to negative childhood experiences with fathers. These experiences included reports of emotionally distant, uncaring fathers and witnessing father-perpetrated domestic violence. The relationship between poorer fathering and sexually aggressive behavior was partially mediated by impulse control problems as a young adult. Although having delinquent peers and endorsements of hostile attitudes toward women and rigid sex-role beliefs, predicted perpetration, contrary to expectations, neither mediated the relationship between poorer fathering and perpetration.