Narcissism and Entitlement: Sexual Aggression and the College Male (Criminal Justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)) (Criminal Justice (Lfb Scholarly Publishing Llc).)

175 Pages·2002·1.57 MB·English

by  David R. Champion

Criminal Justice
Recent Scholarship
Edited by
Marilyn McShane and Frank P. Williams III
A Series from LFB Scholarly
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Narcissism and Entitlement
Sexual Aggression and the College Male
David R. Champion
LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
New York 2002
Copyright © 2002 by LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Champion, David R.
Narcissism and entitlement : sexual aggression and the college male /
David R. Champion.
p. cm. -- (Criminal justice)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-931202-49-4
1. Sexual animosity. 2. Entitlement attitudes. 3. Narcissism. 4.
Male college students--United States--Psychology. I. Title. II.
Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
BF692.15 .C47 2002
306.7'081--dc21
2002010689
ISBN 1-931202-49-4
Printed on acid-free 250-year-life paper.
Manufactured in the United States of America.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One—Sexual Aggression as a Problem.......................................1
Chapter Two—Cognitive Structures and
Entitled Belief System.............................................................................13
Chapter Three—Sexual Aggression: An Overview................................33
Chapter Four—Machs, Narcs, Sexual Aggressors
and the Entitled.........................................................................................41
Chapter Five—Methodology...................................................................61
Chapter Six—Analysis and Results.........................................................73
Chapter Seven—Discussion and Conclusions:
The Entitled Aggressor..........................................................................105
References..............................................................................................137
Appendices.............................................................................................155
Index.......................................................................................................161
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Acknowledgements
I would like to gratefully acknowledge my committee members for
their guidance, assistance and support in the completion of this project.
In particular, I am grateful to Dr. Randy Martin for his hard work,
suggestions and encouragement. Dr. Dennis Giever, Dr. Alida Merlo
and Dr. Donald Robertson were also of invaluable assistance.
Furthermore, I am grateful to Jonas Cavileer and Kyle Green for
their assistance in the data collection process. Thanks also to Dennis
Siepierski for his invaluable technical expertise and limitless patience.
In addition, I am grateful to my parents, William and Martha
Champion, for their support, wisdom and faith. I am very thankful for
the love, faith and support of Janice, whose patience and suggestions
were of great help to me in my doctoral work. Finally, I wish to thank
Ian and Jake for their important support and assistance.
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Preface
This study sought to identify cognitively structured belief systems of
men that are associated with sexual aggression. The structures of
narcissism and Machiavellianism were tested among other variables in
order to determine if certain entitling belief systems had a relationship
with sexual violence.
Established instruments that measured narcissism,
Machiavellianism and sexual aggression were administered to a sample
of 308 male students. The subjects were also asked if they participated
in collegiate athletics or fraternities, as well as their ages, sexual
experience and number of credits earned in college. The results were
analyzed via descriptive statistics, comparison of means, correlations,
and regression. These results indicated that high sexual aggressors
tended to be high in narcissism, Machiavellianism and sexual
experience. Age was also positively correlated with sexual aggression.
However, these variables did not contribute or explain sexual
aggression, they were merely associated with it. The other variables
were unrelated to sexual aggression.
This study indicates that certain personality structures might be
associated with sexual aggression, and that these should be further
investigated to develop a greater understanding of the causes of this
criminal activity. Men who report high sexual experience may also tend
to be more sexually aggressive because of their self-serving cognitions.
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