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Article: A new instrument for the evaluation of a date rape prevention program
- Article from:
- Journal of College Student Development
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright American College Personnel Association Nov/Dec 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Studies reveal that date rape and other forms of sexual aggression are far too common among college students (Koss & Harvey, 1991). Administrators have begun to address the problem of date rape through the use of prevention strategies and evaluation studies (Lonsway, 1996). The literature reveals that the majority of evaluation studies for date rape prevention programs have used one of two instruments that were developed on populations very unlike college students (Lonsway & Fitzgerald, 1994). These instruments are the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (RMAS; Burt, 1980) and the Attitudes Toward Rape Scale (ATR; Feild, 1978). The sample populations used for these studies had mean ages of ...