mitigating the effects of exposure to violence against women : an educational perspective
abstract
one hundred sixty-four female and one hundred twenty-four male
undergraduate university 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛
participated in an experiment designed
to assess the role and / or value of education in mitigating the effects of
exposure to violence against women. in order to assess the role of
education some subjects were given type-written educational
interventions (briefings) designed to dispel rape myths prior and / or
subsequent to exposure to a written violent acquaintance-rape depiction,
while other subjects received only the rape depiction and no intervention.
the basic design of the experiment was a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial with gender
and educational interventions (ie, prebriefing and debriefing) as the
independent variables. two additional control groups were created in order
to explore the impact of the rape depiction. all subjects were required to
complete a sexual attitudes survey in which the dependent measures were
embedded. the results indicated that subjects who received an educational
intervention prior to the rape depiction significantly decreased their levels
of rape myth acceptance and adversarial sexual beliefs in comparison to
subjects who did not receive any educational intervention. further
significant results were found between the genders; across all conditons females, relative to males, were significantly less accepting of rape
myths, interpersonal violence, and adversarial sexual beliefs. females also
expressed significantly greater sensitivity to the content of the rape
depiction than males. the implications of the present data are discussed in
terms of their impact on the direction of future research in establishing
effective educational interventions.
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