Women's reactions to sexually aggressive mass media depictions

Violence Against Woman

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-181

  Krafka, Carol ^b   Linz, Daniel ^a   Donnerstein, Edward ^a   Penrod, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BEHAVIOR; CRIME; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FEMALE; FILMS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-PERCEPTION--WOMEN; SEXUAL ABUSE--WOMEN; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL PROBLEM; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; VIOLENCE--WOMEN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; CRIME; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FILMS; MASS MEDIA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RESEARCH REPORT; SELF-PERCEPTION--WOMEN; SEXUAL ABUSE--WOMEN; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE--WOMEN; WOMEN;

AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; CRIME; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; MASS MEDIA; MOTION PICTURES; NORTH AMERICA; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WOMEN;

EID: 0031107221     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801297003002004     Document Type: Article

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