 |
Sexual Victimization and Trauma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Project Description Research Interests My research program attempts to understand the processes involved in the sexual victimization and revictimization of women by using a social information processing model (SIP) as a general framework and methods borrowed from cognitive science. The SIP model posits that women at risk for sexual victimization may experience difficulties in one or more of the following areas: (a) interpreting risk-relevant stimuli in the environment, (b) generating or selecting risk-reducing responses to high-risk dating and social situations, or (c) executing successfully the chosen responses to these situations. As a result of these difficulties, women at risk for victimization may be more likely to respond ineffectively to interpersonal situations in which they are at risk for being sexually victimized. My research focuses on testing each stage of the SIP model. The information derived from these studies ultimately will be used to inform my work in the development and evaluation of interventions aimed at preventing the sexual victimization of women. Eligibility Graduate Research Lab | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
