TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Hypermasculinity, Token Resistance, Rape Myth, and Assertive Sexual Consent Communication Among College Men
AU - Shafer, Autumn
AU - Ortiz, Rebecca R.
AU - Thompson, Bailey
AU - Huemmer, Jennifer
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the Student Affairs Office at Texas Tech University and the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University, which provided funds to compensate participants in this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - Purpose: A greater understanding of how college men's gendered beliefs and communication styles relate to their sexual consent attitudes and intentions is essential within the shifting context of negative to affirmative consent policies on college campuses. The results of this study can be used to help design more effective sexual consent interventions. Methods: Three hundred seventy undergraduate college men completed cross-sectional online surveys. Hierarchical multiple regression examined how hypermasculinity, token resistance, rape myth acceptance, and sexual communication assertiveness were associated with consent-related attitudes, intentions, and interpretations. Results: Bivariate correlations among all variables were significant. In multivariate analyses, sexual communication assertiveness was positively associated with all consent outcomes, and token resistance and rape myth acceptance were negatively associated with some. Hypermasculinity was not a significant factor. Conclusions: Programs seeking to improve sexual consent communication among college men should reduce destructive beliefs and encourage sexually assertive communication.
AB - Purpose: A greater understanding of how college men's gendered beliefs and communication styles relate to their sexual consent attitudes and intentions is essential within the shifting context of negative to affirmative consent policies on college campuses. The results of this study can be used to help design more effective sexual consent interventions. Methods: Three hundred seventy undergraduate college men completed cross-sectional online surveys. Hierarchical multiple regression examined how hypermasculinity, token resistance, rape myth acceptance, and sexual communication assertiveness were associated with consent-related attitudes, intentions, and interpretations. Results: Bivariate correlations among all variables were significant. In multivariate analyses, sexual communication assertiveness was positively associated with all consent outcomes, and token resistance and rape myth acceptance were negatively associated with some. Hypermasculinity was not a significant factor. Conclusions: Programs seeking to improve sexual consent communication among college men should reduce destructive beliefs and encourage sexually assertive communication.
KW - Hypermasculinity
KW - Rape myth acceptance
KW - Sexual communication assertiveness
KW - Sexual consent communication
KW - Token resistance
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.10.015
DO - 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.10.015
M3 - Article
C2 - 29455717
AN - SCOPUS:85042070346
VL - 62
SP - S44-S50
JO - Journal of Adolescent Health
JF - Journal of Adolescent Health
SN - 1054-139X
IS - 3
ER -