Sexual aggression in adolescence:Risky Sexual Scripts and Sexual Behaviors

• Authors: Barbara Krahe

Title variants

PL

Agresja seksualna w wieku dorastania: ryzykowne skrypty i zachowania seksualne

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Adolescence is a critical period in which sexual behavior patterns are established and sexuality-related norms are formed. In this process, the development of sexual scripts plays an important role. The present contribution focuses on those elements in the scripts for consensual sexual interactions that are linked to an increased risk of sexual aggression and victimization (such as alcohol consumption, casual sex, ambiguous communication). Study 1 presents longitudinal findings showing that the risk factors of sexual aggression become more prominent in adolescents’ scripts as they start being sexually active and that the risk elements of sexual scripts are enacted in sexual behavior. Study 2 shows that the risk elements in sexual scripts predict the likelihood of sexual aggression and victimization nine months later. Finally, Study 3 demonstrates that adolescents’ use of violent pornography is linked to a greater acceptance of sexual aggression, which is mediated by a greater prominence of risk elements of sexual aggression in their sexual scripts.

PL

Wiek dorastania jest krytycznym okresem, w ktorym kształtują się wzory zachowań seksualnych oraz norm związanych z seksualnością. Rozwoj skryptow seksualnych odgrywa ważną rolę w tym procesie. Niniejsza praca skupia się na tych elementach w skryptach związanych z ugodowymi interakcjami seksualnymi, ktore odnoszą się do wzmożonego ryzyka seksualnej agresji oraz wiktymizacji (takie jak spożycie alkoholu, przypadkowy seks, niejednoznaczna komunikacja). Badanie 1 prezentuje wyniki wzdłużne pokazujące, że ryzykowne czynniki agresji seksualnej stają się bardziej widoczne w skryptach młodzieży, jako że wtedy właśnie zaczyna być ona aktywna seksualnie, oraz że elementy ryzyka skryptow seksualnych są wpisane w zachowanie seksualne. Badanie 2 pokazuje, że elementy ryzyka w skryptach seksualnych przepowiadają prawdopodobieństwo seksualnej agresji i wiktimizacji dziewięć miesięcy poźniej. Natomiast Badanie 3 dowodzi, ze korzystanie przez młodzież z ciężkiej pornografii jest związane z większą akceptacja agresji seksualnej, ktora pojawia się za pośrednictwem większego znaczenia elementow ryzyka agresji seksualnej w ich skryptach.

Keywords

EN

sexual aggression; youth; sexual scripts; sexual activity; wictimization; pornography

PL

agresja seksualna; młodzież; skrypty seksualne; aktywność seksualna; wiktymizacja; pornografia

• Publisher: Lubuskie Towarzystwo Naukowe
• Journal: Rocznik Lubuski
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 75-90

Contributors

author

Barbara Krahe

• Uniwersytet w Poczdamie

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