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PREDICTING VERBAL SEXUAL COERCION VICTIMIZATION IN COLLEGE WOMEN: THE ROLE OF ADULT ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT, SEX MOTIVES, AND EMOTION DYSREGULATION

Kaplinska, Yuliya
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8088-2642
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1469211782

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Psychology.
Compared to securely-attached individuals, individuals with insecure adult attachment report more sexual concerns and adverse sexual experiences and outcomes, such as negative affect during sexual activity and higher rates of engaging in unwanted, but consensual sex (i.e., compliant sex). Complying with unwanted sex increases women’s risk for later experiencing sexual aggression (i.e., forced or substance facilitated sexual assault). The current study used an attachment framework to examine factors associated with verbal sexual coercion victimization in a sample of 650 college women. Higher scores on a self-report measure of adult romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance (ECR-R) predicted higher odds of verbal sexual coercion victimization. In four serial-mediation emotion-motivation models two types of emotions dysregulation (global and cognitive; DERS) and two types of avoidance-based sex motives (other-focused and self-focused; SMS) explained the link between attachment insecurity and victimization. Attachment anxiety predicted total emotion dysregulation, which predicted partner-approval and self-affirmation sex motives, which predicted coercion victimization. Attachment avoidance predicted cognitive emotion dysregulation, which predicted partner-approval and self-affirmation sex motives, which predicted coercion victimization. Unique patterns of simple and indirect effects emerged in the models. Findings support the proposal that sex motives represent hyperactivating and deactivating (i.e., anxious and avoidant) attachment strategies in romantic relationships, and that emotion dysregulation and avoidance-based motivation increases the risk for sexual victimization. Results are explained in context of attachment theory and recommendations are made for future research and clinical implications.
Terri Messman-Moore, PhD (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth Kiel, PhD (Committee Member)
Vaishali Raval, PhD (Committee Member)
Elise Radina, PhD (Committee Member)
74 p.
Psychology

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  • Kaplinska, Y. (2016). PREDICTING VERBAL SEXUAL COERCION VICTIMIZATION IN COLLEGE WOMEN: THE ROLE OF ADULT ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT, SEX MOTIVES, AND EMOTION DYSREGULATION [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1469211782

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kaplinska, Yuliya. PREDICTING VERBAL SEXUAL COERCION VICTIMIZATION IN COLLEGE WOMEN: THE ROLE OF ADULT ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT, SEX MOTIVES, AND EMOTION DYSREGULATION . 2016. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1469211782.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kaplinska, Yuliya. "PREDICTING VERBAL SEXUAL COERCION VICTIMIZATION IN COLLEGE WOMEN: THE ROLE OF ADULT ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT, SEX MOTIVES, AND EMOTION DYSREGULATION ." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1469211782

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