- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- A survey of a select group of black male college students' attitudes toward the rape myth, 1992
- Creator:
- Grant, Stacey L.
- Date of Original:
- 1992-06-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The intent of this study was to examine the attitudes of a select group of college black males towards rape myths. The Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Burt, 1980) was used to determine attitudes that college black males had. The sample for this study consisted of 78 black college male students attending summer school at a historically black institution. An overwhelming majority of the responses disagreed with the traditional rape myth beliefs. This seems to support the theory that black male college students' liberal attitudes may be a reflection of the effects of their having achieved high levels of education. The educational process may have helped these subjects develop feelings of self esteem for their behavior. However, approximately one third of the responses agreed with the rape myth beliefs. Therefore, the implication is that college black males, who perceive friendly behavior as sexual interests, must reevaluate their behaviors, attitudes, and values regarding misperceptions of sexual judgments. Finally, black males who are better educated tend to have attitudes that are less adversarial and less violent and do not accept rape myth beliefs.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1992_grant_stacey_l
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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