This paper was designed to provide basic data for the prevention program of sexual violence for the potential victims of dating by finding out the factors and routes of sexual violence of female college student‘s dating. The conceptual framework was...
This paper was designed to provide basic data for the prevention program of sexual violence for the potential victims of dating by finding out the factors and routes of sexual violence of female college student‘s dating. The conceptual framework was set up based on ecological systems theory, feminism theory, and literature reviews, by which the hypothetical model was established.
The conceptual framework was consisted of both personal factors and environmental factors. Personal factors included self-esteem, sexual violence permissiveness, and sexual assertiveness, which affect the sexual violence of dating experience among female college students. Environmental factors include dating sexual assault recognition and gender role stereotypes.
The model's exogenous variables included self-esteem, dating sexual assault recognition and gender role stereotypes, and endogenous variables included sexual violence permissiveness, sexual assertiveness, and sexual violence experience of dating victims. The author analyzed the direct/indirect causes which affect the dating victims of sexual violence using the hypothetical model which consists of six theoretical variables and fourteen measurement variables.
Data were collected from November 10 to December 23, 2008 from female college students in 11 Provinces/Cities of Korea, such as Seoul, Gyeonggi, Daejeon, Chungnam, Gwangju, Jeonnam, Jeonbuk, Busan, Gyeongnam, and Gyeongbuk. A total of 416 out of 1,135 female dating college students were used as subjects, who reported their experience of sexual violence in dating.
The data were analyzed by SPSS 15.0 program and AMOS 17.0 program. The results was summarized as follows;
1. The fitness analysis of the model.
1) The result of the hypothetical model's fitness test showed =180.893(p<.001),/df=2.741, NFI=.875, NNFI=.883, CFI=.915, GFI=.941, AGFI=.905, RMSEA=.065. This means that fitness between the hypothetical model and dating experience data was rather correspondent; however, the model needed to be partially modified in order to improve the results.
2) The modified model showed =141.053(p<.001), /df=2.239, NFI= .903, NNFI= .917, CFI= .942, GFI= .954, AGFI= .923, RMSEA= .055, meaning an improved simplicity and general fitness index of the model.
2. The result of the testing hypothesis
As a result of testing hypothesis, 10 out of 12 hypotheses were supported, and the results of each endogenous variable were as follows;
1) Permissiveness of sexual violence was the most significant factor which brings experience of sexual violence in dating.
The higher permissiveness of sexual violence(β= .451, p< .001), and dating sexual assault recognition(β=-.292, p<.01), the lower self esteem (β=- .253, p< .01) they had, the higher rate of experience of sexual violence among dating female college students they showed. These variables explained about 28.9% of experience of sexual violence in dating.
2) The recognition of dating sexual assault influenced the sexual assertiveness the most.
The lower self-esteem(β=.211, p<.001) and dating sexual assault recognition(β= .510, p<.001), and the higher gender role stereotypes(β=-.286, p<.001) and sexual violence permissiveness(β=-.259, p<.001) they had, the lower sexual assertiveness they showed, These variables explained about 58.6% of sexual assertiveness.
3) The recognition of dating sexual assaults influenced upon the sexual violence permissiveness the most.
The higher self-esteem(β=- .182, p< .001) and dating sexual assault recognition(β=.296, p<.001) they had, the lower gender role stereotypes(β=.275, p<.001), the lower sexual violence permissiveness they showed, These variables explained about 28.6% of sexual violence permissiveness.
This study showed that self-esteem directly influenced the sexual violence permissiveness, sexual assertiveness, and sexual violence experience. The recognition of dating sexual assaults directly affected the sexual violence permissiveness and sexual assertiveness. Also, it had an overall effect on the dating experience of sexual violence victims. In addition, the gender role stereotypes directly affected the sexual violence permissiveness and sexual assertiveness. Especially, the sexual violence permissiveness directly influenced the sexual violence victim experience.
In conclusion, this hypothetical model predicted the dating sexual violence victims with its simplicity and generality. Thus, based on the results of this study, development of programs for the prevention of dating sexual violence and nursing intervention could be possible, which could lead to make the dating sexual assault recognition and self-esteem higher, and gender role stereotypes and sexual violence permissiveness lower.