Inhalt: Researchers have accumulated much social scientific knowledge about the scope, distribution, causes, and outcomes of
the physical and sexual abuse of female students in North American institutions of higher learning. However, surveys of
technology-facilitated stalking and the dissemination of unwanted sexual messages/images in college campus communities
are in short supply. The few that have been conducted do not identify key sociological risk factors associated with these
two electronic forms of victimization. This paper, then, has two objectives: (1) to examine the influence of two types of
negative peer support and (2) to determine if being the target of technology-facilitated stalking and receiving unwanted sexual
messages/images are associated with female students’ intimate partner violence and sexual assault experiences. The results
confirm that the two variants of negative peer support examined in this study are significant predictors of digital victimization
and that such abuse is strongly associated with intimate partner violence and sexual assault.
Schlagwörter:campus; cyber violence; Einflussfaktoren; harassment; intimate partner violence; negative peer support; sexual assault; sexual harassment; Studierende; technology-facilitated stalking; unwanted sexual messages/images; USA
CEWS Kategorie:Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz