Title:
Hypermasculinity, homophobia and likelihood to acquaintance rape: testing mediational and moderational models
Author:
Nicole M. Valletto
Thesis Advisor:
Charles LoPresto
Committee Member:
Martin F. Sherman
Committee Member:
Steven Sobelman
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2001
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
reformatted digital
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of the relations between hypermasculinity, homophobia, and likelihood to commit acquaintance rape. Specifically, two models of the relationship were proposed. It was hypothesized that derived defensive homophobia would mediate the relation between hypermasculinity and likelihood to acquaintance rape, such that the relation between hypermasculinity and homophobia would be non-significant when the effects of defensive homophobia were controlled. Another model of the relation, that defensive homophobia would moderate the relation between hypermasculinity and likelihood to acquaintance rape, such that as level of defensive homophobia increased, so would the strength of the relation between hypermasculinity and likelihood to acquaintance rape, was also hypothesized. One hundred and twenty-one male, undergraduate participants responded to several questionnaires aimed at assessing the variables under investigation, including the Hypermasculinity Inventory (Mosher and Sirkin, 1984), Attitude Functions Inventory (Herek, 1987), the Attitudes Toward Gay Men scale (Herek, 1988), and a rating of one's likelihood to coerce a woman into sexual intercourse if assured he would not be caught. Correlation and regression analyses were performed on the data, but results failed to find either a mediating or moderating relation. However, the results confirmed a relation between hypermasculinity and both defensive homophobia and likelihood to acquaintance rape. Important implications and suggestions for future research were discussed.
Subject:
Machismo--Psychological aspects
Subject:
Homophobia
Subject:
Date rape--Psychological aspects
Subject:
Men--Sexual behavior--Psychological aspects
Degree:
Master of Arts
Level:
Master
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
VallettoNM-01
