Impact of relationship to the perpetrator and self-blame on college womens well-being following sexual assault

Ann E. Jones

Chapter 17 in Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health, 2022, pp 289-305 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines a social-psychological model of how sexual assault is related to psychological well-being among women college students as a function of the degree of familiarity with their assailant prior to the assault and the extent to which they blames themselves for being assaulted. Two types of self-blame, behavioral and character blame, were assessed and treated as mediators of the association between three types of relationships to the perpetrator (i.e., known vs. a stranger; close vs. acquaintance; and romantic vs. platonic) and three aspects of a woman's well-being, self-esteem, life satisfaction, and distress. Self-blame mediated the association between perpetrator familiarity and well-being such that being assaulted by a known perpetrator was associated with higher self-esteem via increased behavior blame, and worse well-being across each outcome via increased character blame. Implications for the importance of support systems' awareness of self-blame is discussed.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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