Variable M (S) or Frequency (%) United States (n = 232) Philippines (n = 185) Gender Female 175 (75.4%) 145 (78.4%) Age 20.13 (2.36) 18.03 (1.622) Year In School Freshmen Sophomore Junior Senior Other 88 (37.9%) 39 (16.8%) 54 (23.3%) 49 (21.1%) 2 (.9%) 57 (30.8%) 81 (43.8%) 18 (9.7%) 25 (13.5%) 1 (.5%) Marital Status Single 221 (95.3%) 75.28 (59.39) Sexual Orientation Heterosexual 219 (94.4%) 124 (67.0%) Vignette Type Drunk Just Met 116 (50.2%) 114 (49.4%) 84 (50%) 85 (50.6%) Data were collected from a cross-cultural study of 417 undergraduates from a large American University (n = 232) and a large Filipino University (n = 185). The participants completed a set of surveys through Qualtrics which assessed problematic substance use, emotional states, trauma history, sexual history, and attitudes towards sex. A novel vignette was created to more closely approximate a date-rape situation in college students. Vignette questions assessed the participant’s comfort, level of excitement, and likelihood of leaving a coercive sexual situation between a female and a drunk male. The vignette was delivered as a between group design with four possible conditions, varying whether or not the female was drunk and whether the couple had gone on several dates or had just met. The vignette had seventeen possible questions, beginning with consensual interaction and progressing towards sexual assault and rape. Five of the questions were identified as events which substantially increased the level of inappropriate behavior: inappropriate touch (Q 6), verbal coercion (Q 9), physical coercion (Q 12), verbal assault (Q 16), and rape (Q 17). “The following is a chronological description of a social experience or scenario that is not uncommon for college students. For the purposes of this exercise, imagine you are the person of your gender in the scenario. As the scenario develops, you will be asked to indicate (a) how comfortable you are with the situation, and (b) how excited you would be if you were that person of the same gender. You will also be asked to indicate when you would leave the situation.” After each question participants were asked: “Would you continue the social interaction at this point?” Stop (1) Continue (2) “How comfortable are you with this situation?” Very uncomfortable (1) – Very Comfortable (5) “How excited would you be about spending time with the other person?” Very unexcited (1) – Very excited (5) A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Effect of Gender, Alcohol Use, and Intimacy on the Decision to Continue in a Sexual Encounter Vignette Sarah C. King 1 , Antover P. Tuliao 1 , Bernice Vania N. Landoy 2 , Morgan Handley 1 , & Dennis E. McChargue 1 1 Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 2 Department of Psychology, University of the Philippines – Visayas, Iloilo, Philippines Prior research has examined the role of alcohol in sexual assault through utilizing date rape analogue vignettes to study perpetration and victimization. There is a paucity of cross-cultural research on this topic, leaving the generalizability and universality of the findings to question. Intimate relationships, sexual norms, and transgressions from it are governed by gender roles and social and power relations which may vary across cultures. It is unclear how individuals from different cultures would respond to situations that Americans would constitute as sexual aggression. For example, Serquina-Ramiro (2005) found that sexual coercion was common among Filipino male adolescents. Furthermore, it is also unclear how the role of alcohol intoxication would influence sexual aggression cross-culturally. The purpose of the present study was to examine culture, gender, alcohol consumption, and level of intimacy as predictors of leaving behavior in a novel date-rape vignette. Differences in leaving behavior were examined through chi-square analyses as a function of culture, gender, whether or not the female was intoxicated in the vignette, and how well the couple knew one another. Results indicated that there were cultural differences beginning at verbal coercion and continuing to physical assault, with a greater portion of the Filipino population continuing at three of the four time points (p = .003, .034, .013 respectively). Gender differences were also present regarding the decision to stay in the situation after the inappropriate touch, with males being more likely to continue than females (X 2 = 7.435, p = .024); however, no significant variability was present at other key events. There were no differences in leaving behavior related to whether or not the female was intoxicated or how well the couple knew one another in the encounter. Results indicated that there are significant differences in leaving behavior based on cultural factors. This may be a function of Filipino attitudes being less accepting of premarital sex than American attitudes (Gipson et al., 2012; Lacson et al., 1997) which could explain the general trend that Filipino participants leave the sexually- related situation more quickly (see Figure 1). As such, Filipinos who stayed in the situation may be more likely to be victimized or sexually assaulted. Conversely, more permissive attitudes towards sex may lead the American participants to stay in the situation longer, but may also contribute to the presence of normative leaving points which occurred at the time of inappropriate touch (Q 6) and verbal coercion (Q 9). A significant difference in leaving behavior was also found related to gender. According to Fisher and Walters (2003), gender differences exist in the perception of sexual interest. Males tend to sexualize what females would consider friendly or innocuous behavior. This may explain why males still chose to remain in the situation at the time of inappropriate touch (Q 6). Specifically, they could be misinterpreting the woman’s behavior as part of flirtation, whereas women know a no really means a refusal. This study contributes to the understanding of cultural and gender differences in a novel date-rape scenario. However, it is important to consider that the participants were not intoxicated when they read the vignette and reported leaving behavior. In a real-life situation, we expect that there would be influences of alcohol, given that 25% of female rape victims are under the influence (Kilpatrick et al., 2007) and half of all sexual aggressive acts on college campus involve alcohol use (Abbey, 2002; Abbey et al., 1998; Harrington & Leitenberg, 1994; Testa, 2002). Our lack of findings related to differences in leaving behavior as a function of the women’s intoxication level support the Alcohol Myopia theory (Steele & Josephs, 1990) in that increased sexual aggression may be partially due to cognitive impairment. Future directions include examining novel ways of analyzing the leaving behavior across time utilizing multilevel analyses. Specifically, we aim towards using a piecewise model to explain the pattern of leaving behavior across all questions of the vignette. Introduction Method Results Discussion Table 1 Descriptive Statistics for U.S. and Filipino Sample Figure 1 Leaving Behavior by Gender and Country Variable Q6 Q9 Q12 Q16 Q17 Culture (1 = US) 2.203 (p > .05) 11.905 (p = .003) 6.764 (p = .034) 5.646 (p = .059) 8.666 (p = .013) Gender ( 1 = Male) 7.435 ( p = .024) 3.340 (p > .05) .831 (p > .05) 1.231 ( p > .05) .177 ( p > .05) Alcohol (0 = Sober) 1.036 (p > .05) 1.041 (p > .05) .309 (p > .05) 2.300 (p > .05) .414 (p > .05) Intimacy (0 = Just Met) .709 (p > .05) .339 (p > .05) .309 (p > .05) 2.550 (p > .05) 2.209 (p > .05) Table 2 Differences in Leaving Behavior 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 % Remaining in the Situation US-Males US Females Philippines Males Philippines Females