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Sexual victimization, fear of sexual powerlessness, and cognitive emotion dysregulation as barriers to sexual assertiveness in college women.

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2013-12
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Zerubavel, Noga
Messman-Moore, Terri L
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The current study examined sexual victimization and two barriers to young women's sexual assertiveness: fear of sexual powerlessness and cognitive emotion dysregulation. College women (N = 499) responded to surveys and indicated that fear of sexual powerlessness and, to a lesser extent, cognitive emotion dysregulation were barriers to sexual assertiveness. Compared with nonvictims, sexually victimized women had greater problems with sexual assertiveness, fear of sexual powerlessness, and cognitive emotion dysregulation. Among victims, fear of sexual powerlessness and emotion dysregulation interacted to impede sexual assertiveness. Findings support targeting identified barriers in interventions to improve sexual assertiveness and reduce risk for unwanted sexual experiences and sexual victimization.
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Journal article
Subject
cognitive emotion dysregulation
sexual assertiveness
sexual powerlessness
sexual victimization
Adolescent
Adult
Assertiveness
Cognition
Crime Victims
Data Collection
Emotions
Fear
Female
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Power (Psychology)
Rape
Sexual Behavior
Universities
Women's Health
Young Adult
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11250
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10.1177/1077801213517566
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Zerubavel, Noga; & Messman-Moore, Terri L (2013). Sexual victimization, fear of sexual powerlessness, and cognitive emotion dysregulation as barriers to sexual assertiveness in college women. Violence Against Women, 19(12). pp. 1518-1537. 10.1177/1077801213517566. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11250.
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Noga Zerubavel

Assistant Consulting Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Noga Zerubavel, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Zerubavel is the Director of the Stress, Trauma, and Recovery Treatment Clinic (START Clinic), which provides treatment for trauma-related disorders including PTSD, dissociative disorders, and other sequelae of trauma within the Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program at Duke. She specializes in working with
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