Table 3.
Items from the modern myths about sexual assault (AMMSA) scale with upper and lower mean values. Total data and stratified by sex. Young people 18–35 years old. Spain. 2020
| Items from AMMSA scale with upper values | Total (n = 2515) |
Women (n = 1262) |
Men (n = 1253) |
p | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | sd | M | sd | M | sd | |||||||
| Item_19 |
When politicians deal with the topic of rape they do so mainly because this topic is likely to attract the attention of the media. |
4.42 | 2.07 | 4.26 | 2.07 | 4.57 | 2.07 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Item_1 | When it comes to sexual contacts women expect men to take the lead. | 4.08 | 1.91 | 3.83 | 1.91 | 4.34 | 1.89 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Item_25 |
Although the victims of armed robbery have to fear for their lives they receive far less psychological support than do rape victims. |
3.66 | 2.05 | 3.44 | 2.06 | 3.87 | 2.03 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Item_7 | After a rape woman nowadays receive ample support. | 3.60 | 2.07 | 3.28 | 2.03 | 3.93 | 2.06 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Item_28 |
Nowadays the victims of sexual violence receive sufficient help in the form of women’s shelters therapy offers and support groups. |
3.38 | 1.98 | 3.09 | 1.97 | 3.67 | 1.94 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Item_5 |
Interpreting harmless gestures as “sexual harassment” is a popular weapon in the battle of the sexes. |
3.21 | 2.07 | 2.73 | 2.00 | 3.69 | 2.01 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Items from AMMSA scale with lower values | ||||||||||||
| Item_11 |
Any woman who is careless enough to walk through “dark alleys” at night is partly to be blamed if she is raped. |
1.57 | 1.33 | 1.36 | 1.12 | 1.77 | 1.49 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Item_12 |
When a woman starts a relationship with a man she must be aware that the man will assert his right to have sex. |
1.90 | 1.61 | 1.66 | 1.48 | 2.14 | 1.70 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Item_30 | Nowadays men who really sexually assault women are punished justly. | 2.11 | 1.63 | 1.70 | 1.32 | 2.52 | 1.80 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Item_17 | When a man urges his female partner to have sex this cannot be called rape. | 2.12 | 1.71 | 1.77 | 1.55 | 2.48 | 1.80 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Item_3 |
A lot of women strongly complain about sexual infringements for no real reason just to appear emancipated. |
2.29 | 1.71 | 1.89 | 1.50 | 2.69 | 1.82 | < 0.001 | ||||
| Item_21 |
A man’s sexuality functions like a steam boiler, when the pressure gets too high he has to “let off steam.” |
2.37 | 1.86 | 2.18 | 1.81 | 2.56 | 1.88 | < 0.001 | ||||
M: mean; sd: standard deviation. P values obtained through the ANOVA test