College Student Attitudes Toward Forcible Date Rape: Changes After Taking a Human Sexuality Course
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- other
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Sex Education and Therapy
- Vol. 12 (1) , 42-46
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.1986.11074860
Abstract
The author earlier found that the two best predictors of attitudes toward forcible date rape were how sure students were that a date rape vignette was definitely rape, and their attitudes toward women. The possibility that these predictor and criterion variables would change after a course in Human Sexuality was assessed in this study. In two successive years, students in three Human Sexuality classes and one Introductory Psychology class took pre- and post-class surveys measuring sexual attitudes, knowledge, and experience and attitudes toward women (15-item AWS scale). The expected changes attributable to having taken a Human Sexuality class were found. Students became more rejecting of date rape, more sure that it definitely was rape, and slightly more liberal in attitudes toward women.Keywords
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