Expecting to meet a rape victim affects women's self-esteem: The moderating role of rape myth acceptance (EL)

Bohner, G. (EL)

Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Φιλοσοφική Σχολή. Τμήμα Φιλοσοφίας Παιδαγωγικής και Ψυχολογίας (EL)

Bohner, G. (EL)

Research has shown that women's level of rape myth acceptance (RMA) moderates the impact of rape salience on their self-esteem. Conceptually replicating previous studies where rape salience was operationalized by presenting newspaper articles, the present study featured a realistic expectation of meeting a rape victim. Female students (N = 82) who were either low or high in RMA expected a conversation with another woman about one of three topics: studying, the other woman's illness (leukemia), or the other woman's experience of having been raped. Then their collective self-esteem, individual self-esteem, and affect were assessed. In line with predictions, low-RMA women reported lower self-esteem in the rape condition than in the studying condition, whereas high-RMA participants showed an opposite effect. Although affect was generally lower in the rape condition than in the neutral condition, this effect was significantly more pronounced for low-RMA than high-RMA women. Results for the leukemia condition differed from those in the rape condition, confirming the content-specificity of the moderating effect of RMA. Copyright © 2004 SAGE Publications (London) Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi. (EL)

Gender (EL)

Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων

Ιδρυματικό Αποθετήριο Ολυμπιάς

Φιλοσοφική Σχολή

Άρθρα σε επιστημονικά περιοδικά ( Ανοικτά)

Τμήμα Φιλοσοφίας Παιδαγωγικής και Ψυχολογίας

ΑΠΟΘΕΤΗΡΙΟ "ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΣ"

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (EL)

2004

http://olympias.lib.uoi.gr/jspui/handle/123456789/11772

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