MOTIVES IN SEXUAL AGGRESSION - THE CHINESE CONTEXT

The present study directly compared sexual and aggressive motives for sexual aggression in Chinese college students. One hundred and forty-s ix males completed self-reported measures of sex and aggressive drives , sex and aggressive guilt, social desirability response set, and hist ory of coercive sexuality. As expected, sex guilt and aggressive guilt acted as inhibitors of their respective drives. In this sample, sexua l aggression appeared to result from aggressive rather than sexual mot ives. A comparison with similar research in a North American sample su ggests that motives for sexual aggression may be moderated by cultural differences in general aggressiveness, sex guilt, and the social desi rability of aggressive behavior