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## Correlations between aggressive attitudes and sexual coercion have consistently been found in nu merous empirical studies across social science disciplines. Extrapolating from sociological research linking indices of legitimate aggression by state to statewide frequencies of rape, we have extended the investigation of legitimate aggression and coercive sexuality to the individual level. The specific purposes of this research were to index the breadth and level of endorsement of legitimized aggression at the individual level and to measure the association between such an index and coercive sexual behavior. These purposes were achieved across the course of three studies in which we created a new dispositional measure, the Proclivity for Legitimized Aggression Questionnaire (PLAQ), and replicated a sociocultural level correlation with coercive sexual behavior (Study 1); assessed the individual differences level construct validity of the PLAQ (Study 2); and tested whether endorsement of items on the PLAQ were related to content-relevant behaviors (Study 3). The PLAQ was internally consistent, modestly but significantly correlated with a measure of self-reported coercive sexual behav

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Author

Matthew Hogben; Donn Byrne; Merle E. Hamburger; Julie Osland

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0096-140X)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)