2016/08/02 by Isabell Schuster, Barbara Krahé, Ezgi Toplu-Demirtaş +1 · 8 citations
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Aggression #Clinical psychology #Criminology #Injury prevention #Intimate Partner and Family Violence #Medical emergency #Medicine #Poison control #Psychiatry #Psychology #Sex work and related issues #Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies #Sexual violence #Turkish
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/00224499.2016.1207057
openalex publication_date 2016/08/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
In Turkey, there is a shortage of studies on the prevalence of sexual aggression among young adults. The present study examined sexual aggression victimization and perpetration since the age of 15 in a convenience sample of N = 1,376 college students (886 women) from four public universities in Ankara, Turkey. Prevalence rates for different coercive strategies, victim-perpetrator constellations, and sexual acts were measured with a Turkish version of the Sexual Aggression and Victimization Scale (SAV-S). Overall, 77.6% of women and 65.5% of men reported at least one instance of sexual aggression victimization, and 28.9% of men and 14.2% of women reported at least one instance of sexual aggression perpetration. Prevalence rates of sexual aggression victimization and perpetration were highest for current or former partners, followed by acquaintances/friends and strangers. Alcohol was involved in a substantial proportion of the reported incidents. The findings are the first to provide systematic evidence on sexual aggression perpetration and victimization among college students in Turkey, including both women and men.