NCJ Number
216969
Journal
Journal of Family Violence Volume: 21 Issue: 7 Dated: October 2006 Pages: 449-460
Date Published
October 2006
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This study examined the combined contribution of deviance (prior and current), college athletic participation, fraternity affiliation, and opportunity to the prediction of sexual aggression among male college students.
Abstract
The results of this study supported the main hypotheses which suggested that the association between prior deviance and sexually aggressive behavior would be accounted for, or mediated by, individual opportunity. Individuals, who had a history of deviant behavior, were more likely to be sexually deviant. Also, based on this study, there was not a significant difference between groups and their propensity to commit sexually deviant acts. Lastly, the results were supportive of the assumption that prior deviance and sexually aggressive behavior would be accounted for, or mediated by, individual opportunity. In summation, the results showed that a model including alternative variables can prove to have better explanatory power than previous research that focused on group affiliation. Much of the existing research on sexual deviance on university and college campuses is limited by its narrow focus on group affiliation. Utilizing a sample 304 college students, both athlete and non-athlete this study argued that prior deviance and opportunity would serve as more robust predictor variables of sexual deviance. Analytic moment structures analyses was used to examine the relationship between prior deviance and sexual deviance. Figure, table, references