Relational victimization was measured using teacher reports of victimization to relational aggression by classmates at wave 2. Items included the following statement: “This student is the victim of gossip in the classroom.” Response options ran from 1 “(almost) never applicable” to 5 “(almost)...
Lesbian and bisexual women have high rates of sexual violence compared to heterosexual women, yet prevalence rates vary widely across studies. The Sexual Experience Survey-Short Form Revised (SES-SFV) is the most commonly used method of measuring sexual assault and rape prevalence, but it has not...
Alex, a computer science student from the Midwest, agreed. “You don’t really see it on the college campus. It’s more in the bars and clubs we frequent. But I’ve been kissed by enough guys on nights out to know that it happens!” Pat, enrolled in a university on the West Coast...
However, given that this project was graduate student-led, we did not have the resources available to conduct such substantiative follow-up studies. It is our hope that findings from the present study pave the way for larger future studies. As well as this, in the present study, we failed...