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La victimización sexual en las relaciones con los iguales en una muestra de mujeres adolescentes y jóvenes: prevalencia y creencias relacionadas con la victimización
Este estudio pretende conocer la prevalencia de la victimización sexual entre las mujeres adolescentes y jóvenes por parte de sus iguales conocidos varones, así como identificar la posibilidad de que determinados factores se asocien con una mayor vulnerabilidad ante este tipo de victimización. Para ello, 239 adolescentes y jóvenes escolarizadas respondieron anónimamente a un cuestionario que incluía una adaptación del Sexual Experiences Survey (SES; Koss, Gidycz y Wisniewski, 1987), y otras escalas para valorar la aceptación de determinadas actitudes y creencias que se han asociado a la vulnerabilidad ante la victimización sexual.
Un 42,7% de las adolescentes y jóvenes afirma haber mantenido algún tipo de relación sexual no deseada porque un varón al que conocían utilizó algún tipo de estrategia coercitiva para ello. Las adolescentes y jóvenes que informan haberse visto implicadas en alguna situación sexualmente coercitiva muestran una aceptación significativamente mayor de determinadas creencias estereotipadas y tradicionales en torno a los roles de género, la sexualidad y la coerción sexual.
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