Authoritarianism and sexual aggression.

Abstract

In Study 1, 198 men completed the Right Wing Authoritarianism, Sex Role Ideology, Hostility Towards Women, Acceptance of Interpersonal Violence, Adversarial Sexual Beliefs, and Rape Myth Acceptance scales, as well as measures of past sexually aggressive behavior and likelihood of future sexual aggression. As predicted, authoritarianism and sex role ideology were as closely related to self-reported past and potential future sexually aggressive behavior as were the specifically sexual and aggression-related predictors. Among 134 men in Study 2, authoritarianism and sex guilt positively correlated with each other and with self-reported past sexual aggression. In both studies, the relationship of authoritarianism and sexual aggression was larger in community than in university samples.

Sexual disorders and right-wing authoritarianism in Indonesian boarding school

“…authoritarian aggression? Walker, Rowe, and Quinsey (1993) called it as a paradox; because on one side there is a positive correlation between RWA and sexual aggression dimension (compare also: Begany & Milburn, 2002, regarding positive correlation between RWA and sexual harassment), but on the other side there is a negative correlation between authoritarianism and sexual permissiveness. To explain those: First, there need to be understanding that permissiveness toward sexual aggression is only exhibited to individuals who are deemed worthy or acceptable as target of violence in the authoritarian's perspective, i.e.…”

“…In addition, there are evidences which indicate that RWA raises defensive mechanisms (Edger, 2012;Walker, Rowe, & Quinsey, 1993). Walker, Rowe, and Quinsey (1993), for example, stated that there is a possibility that individuals with authoritarian perspective are less heterosocially skilled and might place themselves less in sexual situations that require mutual consent. However, according to their assessment, individuals with high RWA are not necessarily abstinent sexually; rather they keep searching for sexual contact during certain facets of their life.…”

“…Begany and Milburn also found that there are other variables resulting in sexual aggressions, such as interaction between authoritarianism and individual's belief regarding rape myth and hostile sexism. However, authoritarian conventionalism has a negative attitude towards improper sexual activities (Walker, Rowe, & Quinsey, 1993), thus lowering sexual permissiveness. This study found a negative correlation between RWA and sexual obsession.…”

A review of cognitive factors in the etiology of rape

“…The Right Wing Authoritarianism Scale (Altemeyer, 1988) assesses attitudes toward aggressive treatment of outsiders, such as homosexuals, handicapped people, or refugees; attitudes toward submission to authorities; and attitudes toward conventionalism. In a study with students and nonstudents, Walker et al (1993) predicted rape proclivity from the Right Wing Authoritarianism Scale and from Burt's (1980) attitude scales. Right Wing Authoritarianism predicted self-reported sexual aggression as successfully as did the Burt scales, thereby making a unique contribution to the prediction.…”

“…Muehlenhard and Falcon (1990) and Walker, Rowe, and Quinsey (1993) conducted principal component analyses on the items of the Burt scales using data obtained in college student samples. The extracted factors were found to predict rape proclivity as measured by the SES (Koss & Oros, 1982).…”