Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Corresponding Author: Michelle L. Kelley, Ph. Given higher sexual victimization and greater alcohol use among bisexual women, a critical public health challenge is to understand within-group variation that may heighten or explain these associations in bisexual women.
The present study tested a moderated mediation model in which sexual coercion was hypothesized to be associated with alcohol-related consequences via drinking to cope motives in self-identified bisexual women who reported at least occasional binge drinking. Negative affect was hypothesized to moderate the sexual coercion-drinking to cope motives association. Of these participants, 57 Sexual coercion was associated with negative alcohol-related consequences via drinking to cope motives.
Negative affect moderated the association between sexual coercion and drinking to cope motives such that the association was stronger among women with greater negative affect. Methods of addressing vulnerability to sexual coercion and educating young bisexual women about the association between sexual coercion and potentially problematic affective coping through alcohol use are needed. Keywords: sexual coercion, alcohol-related consequences, drinking to cope motives, bisexual women. Links between sexual victimization and hazardous alcohol use have been demonstrated in heterosexual women e.
In the present study, we tested a model that examined sexual coercion, drinking to cope motives, negative affect, and negative alcohol-related consequences in a community sample of young adult self-identified bisexual women. Thus, important variation between sexual minority women has been ignored in order to make general statements about all sexual minority women as a whole.
Although sexual victimization is a significant problem, there is no standard definition of sexual victimization. In the present investigation, our emphasis was on common forms of sexual coercion.
