- Title
- Assessing unwanted early sexual experiences: a South African university study
- Creator
- Defferary, Tanya E M
- Subject
- College students -- Attitudes -- South Africa
- Subject
- College students -- Sexual behavior -- South Africa
- Subject
- Students -- South Africa -- Psychology
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Soc Sc (Psych)
- Identifier
- vital:11603
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/137
- Identifier
- College students -- Attitudes -- South Africa
- Identifier
- College students -- Sexual behavior -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Students -- South Africa -- Psychology
- Description
- This study assessed the prevalence of unwanted early sexual experiences (UESE), of the first year psychology students at the University of Fort Hare, in East London. Of the participants, 65 (31 percent) indicated that they had been exposed to some form of non-contact (56.9percent) or contact (22.3 prercent) UESE before the age of 16 years. It was found that more male (42.5 percent) than female (25.2 percent) students reported being exposed to an UESE. The most common perpetrator reported by the majority of the participants were friends (52.4 percent). Most respondents reported that they were only exposed to the UESE once (55.6 percent). The study found that females were significantly more bothered than males both at the time of the UESE and at the time of completing the questionnaire. Both male and female participants were more bothered by the UESE at the time of the event than they were at the time of completing the questionnaire, which indicates an abatement of symptoms over time. The results indicate that flashbacks of the UESE were the most bothersome experience for both male and female participants at the time of completing the questionnaire.
- Format
- 54 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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