%0 Journal Article
%T Male PartnersĄŻ Investment and Alternatives as Correlates of WomenĄŻs Coerced First Sexual Intercourse in Chinese Dating Relationships: A Social Exchange Perspective
%A Sandra Tsang
%A Shanshan He
%J Journal of Interpersonal Violence
%@ 1552-6518
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0886260516674939
%X Social exchange theory has great potential to help our understanding of dating partnersĄŻ sexual interaction. Yet, to our knowledge, there is still no empirical study applying this theory to explain sexual coercion in the context of intimate relationships. This study examined the relationship between male partnersĄŻ social exchange variables (investment and alternatives) and womenĄŻs coerced first sexual intercourse in dating relationships, within both gender samples (not dyadic data). A total of 927 valid questionnaires were collected by purposive snowball sampling in five main cities in China of college students who were currently in a romantic relationship. Results showed that in the male sample, male partnersĄŻ investment significantly and positively correlated with emotional manipulation coercive tactics, and their alternatives significantly and positively predicted defection threats as coercive tactics. In the female sample, there were no such observations. The research hypotheses of this study have been partially supported, and its implications and limitations are discussed
%K investment
%K alternatives
%K social exchange
%K sexual coercion
%K first sexual intercourse
%K Chinese college students
%K dating relationships
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0886260516674939