Year: 2016
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This research draws on survey data gathered from 234 undergraduate students to understand if rape myths are still endorsed.Previous research shows that students in general are prone to endorse rape myths.The current study uses the theoretical framework of radical feminist theory to evaluate the extent to which students, both women and men, endorse rape myths, as well as to see if fraternity members and male intercollegiate athletes have higher endorsement rates of rape myth acceptance.The findings indicate that there is an overall disagreement with rape myths, but certain subscales and myths were more likely to be endorsed than others.Additionally, men were prone to higher endorsement rates than women.However, there was no significant difference in fraternity members' rape myth acceptance rates when compared to men who weren't fraternity members.Furthermore, there was not large enough of a sample to make a conclusion comparing male college athletes' myth acceptance rates to male nonathletes. DEDICATIONTo my family.
Author: Brittany J. Moore
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2620506101