Nearly all research on the effects of women’s self-defense training examines college age or, less frequently, adolescent populations. This study broadens that focus by evaluating the effectiveness of self-defense training for an adult community population, ages 18–77 years, comparing students who completed a 9-hr community-based empowerment self-defense course to similar women who did not take the course. Participants who completed the empowerment self-defense course reported significantly less sexual assault at the 1-year follow-up as well as significantly greater self-defense self-efficacy, more accurate knowledge about sexual assault and the possibility of resistance, and less self-silencing than those who did not take the course. This research provides the first systematic evidence that empowerment self-defense training can be effective in preventing assault in adult populations outside of educational contexts. Empowerment self-defense training is therefore an important part of sexual assault prevention efforts. Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0361684319897937

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社区人群赋权自卫训练

几乎所有关于女性自卫训练效果的研究都针对大学年龄或较少见的青少年群体。本研究通过评估自卫训练对 18-77 岁成人社区人群的有效性，将完成 9 小时社区赋权自卫课程的学生与未参加该课程的类似女性进行比较，扩大了这一重点。课程。完成赋权自卫课程的参与者在 1 年的随访中报告的性侵犯显着减少，自卫的自我效能显着提高，对性侵犯和抵抗可能性的了解更准确，自我保护更少。沉默比那些没有参加课程的人。这项研究提供了第一个系统的证据，证明授权自卫训练可以有效地预防教育环境之外的成年人群的攻击。因此，授权自卫训练是性侵犯预防工作的重要组成部分。希望使用本文进行教学的教师的在线幻灯片可在 PWQ 的网站上找到：http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0361684319897937