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- Title
Introducing the Date and Acquaintance Rape Avoidance Scale.
- Authors
Resendez, Josephine R.; Hughes, Jamie S.
- Abstract
We present the Date and Acquaintance Rape Avoidance Scale (DARAS). The DARAS is a measure of a woman's behaviors used to avoid date and acquaintance rape. Three factor structures were possible. The DARAS may have measured several factors related to alcohol and drug use, self-defense, and date behaviors; 2 factors related to behaviors to avoid acquaintance versus date rape; or a single factor that represented general vigilance. The data revealed a highly reliable, 63 item single factor that was correlated with stranger rape avoidance, rejection of rape myths, hostile sexist beliefs about men, and benevolent sexist beliefs about women. The creation of the DARAS adds to the growing body of research on rape avoidance. The DARAS is key to understanding the behaviors women employ to avoid date rape. Rather than placing the responsibility for rape on the victim, the DARAS was developed as a theoretical and applied tool that can be used to improve theory and construct rape education and prevention programs.
- Subjects
ACQUAINTANCE rape; DRUG abuse; SELF-defense; DATE rape; BELIEF &; doubt; RAPE prevention; COMPARATIVE studies; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; SENSORY perception; PREJUDICES; RESEARCH; HUMAN sexuality; CRIME victims; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Violence & Victims, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 4, p664
- ISSN
0886-6708
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-00086R2