An Assessment of College Students’ Attitudes and Empathy Toward Rape Es

An Assessment of College Students Attitudes and Empathy Toward RapeMethodsThe chew over is a descriptive cross-section(a) survey implemented to assess students attitudes toward enthrall and empathy toward survivors of blow. A pilot take on using 30 college students with a two-week interval was used to establish reliability of the ATR and reticuloendothelial system. Subjects birth day, month, and first three digits of their phone numbers were used as identifiers for the re try portion of the pilot remove. A two-tailed t test was performed comparing test scores across the 2-week interval. Statistical analysis found a 1.0 correlation for demographic data, .91 alpha reliability coefficient for the ATR, and a .80 alpha reliability coefficient for the RES. Therefore, the ATR and RES were deemed reliable for the study.PurposeThe purpose of this study is to assess rape attitudes and empathy levels of college students in a selected university setting in North Texas.SampleA tally sampl e of 300 subjects was needed to ensure re bring outation within a confidence interval of 95% and .05 sampling error. The sample was drawn from the succeeding(a) courses from the College of Business Administration, the course Principles of Real Estate provided 107 subjects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the course U.S. autobiography to 1865 provided 89 students from the College of Education, Family Life/Human Sexuality and Health Emergency/ number 1 Aid were selected, providing 110 subjects.Hypotheses1. Students who either have cognise a rape survivor or have themselves been a survivor of rape, will extinguish more rape-intolerant attitudes toward rape and greater empathy levels toward rape survivors than students who have not known a rape survivor or have been the survivor of a rape.2. Students with female siblings will report more rape-intolerant attitudes toward rape and greater empathy toward rape survivors than students without female siblings.3. Female students will have more rape-intolerant attitudes toward rape and greater empathy levels toward rape survivors than those of their male counterparts.4. Students over the age of twenty-six will display more rape-intolerant attitudes and greater empathy levels toward rape survivors than the students under the age of twenty-six.VariablesThe dependent variables be attitudes toward rape and empathy toward rape ... ...homo finishuals.ImplicationsIn future research, it is recommended more exploration of the parameters of mens room reactions to female-initiated coercion. A major question raised by this study is how physical does a situation have to be before men suffice negatively to female sexual coercion. This could be answered in a study in which the vignettes are varied by high levels of force. It is speculated that mens responses would besides be influenced by sexual outcome of the situation (e.g., oral sex or intercourse) and physical appearance of the initiator (e.g., attractive or unattrac tive). Because the present study indicated that both men and women anticipate high psychological psychic trauma from a same-gender advance, the dynamics of these interactions should also be investigated by further vignette research.LimitationsThe major limitation of the present study is that it assessed reactions to hypothetical coercion situations, not actual incidents. Whether victims reactions to actual coercion will parallel findings of this study tummy only be determined by more research. However, the present study may serve as a source of ideas, variables and proposed relationships for future investigations.