Open AccessAlcohol-involved sexual aggression: Emotion regulation as a mechanism of behavior change.
Author(s) -
Kelly Cue Davis,
Elizabeth C. Neilson,
Mitchell Kirwan,
Nolan Eldridge,
William H. George,
Cynthia A. Stappenbeck
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.548
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1930-7810
pISSN - 0278-6133
DOI - 10.1037/hea0001048
Subject(s) - aggression , psychological intervention , psychology , anger , mindfulness , sexual coercion , clinical psychology , psycinfo , poison control , sexual arousal , intervention (counseling) , injury prevention , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , medline , environmental health , political science , sexual behavior , law
Sexual aggression remains a significant public health problem, with the majority of sexual assaults involving alcohol. Founded upon an experimental medicine approach to behavior change, the current study used a proximal change experiment to target and test emotion regulation (ER) as a mechanism underlying alcohol-involved sexual aggression.