Communicative Predictors of Alcohol-Related Sexual Victimization

• In Event: Sex, Sexuality, and Sexialization: A Hot Topic In Interpersonal Relationships

Abstract

Alcohol consumption and communication are mutually influential social processes that often occur together. This study explored how they operate together in a specific context: the role of alcohol (ab)use in understanding sexual victimization in Latino-American adults. Hypotheses tests using a sample of 267 self-identified Latino-Americans (M= 20.68 years) revealed that sexual communication expectations of alcohol use predicted incidence of sexual victimization. Additionally, communicative expectations of alcohol use, discomfort with safer sex communication, age, and sex were explored. Results, discussed within an AET frame, add understanding to an understudied population and topic.

Authors

• Melinda Morris Villagran, Texas State University

• Brenda L. MacArthur, George Mason University

• Sean Michael Horan, Texas State University

• Ty Schepis, Texas State U