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Health Education Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, 139-144, 1998
© 1998 Oxford University Press

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Self-efficacy, self-determination and victim blaming as predictors of adolescent sexual victimization

J. F. Walsh and V. Foshee1

National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC 29425
1Curriculum in Public Health Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Attitudinal constructs hypothesized to be related to sexual victimization were assessed as part of a baseline survey on adolescent dating violence. Subjects were eighth and ninth graders in 14 schools in a rural school district in North Carolina. A follow-up survey was completed 6 months later. Girls who had not reported forced sexual activity at baseline (N = 732) were assessed to determine whether forced sexual activity during the intervening 6 months was predicted by levels of self-efficacy, self-determination or victim blaming at baseline. Results indicate that levels of self-efficacy, but not self-determination or victim blaming, predict the likelihood of experiencing forced sexual activity in this adolescent female population. Recommendations are made for the inclusion of components promoting self-efficacy development in sexual assault prevention programs for females in this age group.


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