Personality variables and circumstances of sexual assault predictive of a woman's resistance
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Archives of Sexual Behavior
- Vol. 14 (2) , 183-188
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01541662
Abstract
The present study investigated degree of resistance to sexual assault as a function of personality variables and circumstances of assault. Death anxiety was the personality variable most predictive of high resistance. The profile of the high-resistant women showed that the absence of a weapon, lower death anxiety, and knowing the assailant accounted for 66% of the variance. It was inferred that the life-threatening aspects of the rape situation are of great importance in determinig a potential victim's reaction.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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