# Identifying High-Risk Periods and People for Alcohol-Facilitated Sexual Violence Perpetration in College Men

> **NIH NIH K01** · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA · 2022 · $156,789

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
This K01 award will allow Dr. Anderson, a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in sexual victimization
and trauma recovery, to further develop into an independent investigator proficient in the prevention and
treatment of alcohol-facilitated sexual violence. Dr. Anderson has a career interest in sexual violence
prevention and the development of interventions designed to reduce the risk of sexual violence. Dr. Anderson’s
long-term research goal is to better understand the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms of sexual
victimization and sexual perpetration to develop more effective interventions. In this research proposal, Dr.
Anderson seeks to identify the temporal pattern and neurocognitive mechanisms of alcohol-facilitated sexual
violence perpetration. Sexual violence, particularly rape, is one of the most harmful traumatic experiences a
person can experience and is nearly endemic on college campuses: 25% of college women experience rape.
Yet, there are few effective interventions to prevent and reduce the risk of sexual violence. Alcohol is involved
in 75% of rapes. Alcohol-facilitated violence is associated with neurocognitive changes and emotion
dysregulation. The training and research activities described in this proposal will allow Dr. Anderson to
examine the complex and multiplicative influences of alcohol on sexual violence perpetration. The application
proposes an intensive, 5-year program of mentored research and training activities to enhance Dr. Anderson’s
skills in: 1) alcohol research methodology and interventions for problem drinking; 2) advanced quantitative
methodology; 3) longitudinal research methods for violence perpetration; 4) collection and interpretation of
neurocognitive data relevant to problem drinking; 5) advanced ethics for studying illegal and stimgatized
behavior. In the long term, Dr. Anderson will apply these skills to study alcohol as a multifactorial mechanism of
sexual violence perpetration and develop interventions that correspond to each unique role of alcohol. The
research component of this career development award is a large longitudinal study designed to achieve the
following aims: 1. Identify high-risk time periods for alcohol-facilitated sexual perpetration; 2. Document
multivariate risk profiles for alcohol-facilitated sexual perpetration and how they vary over time; and 3. Evaluate
neurocognitive factors as a mechanism of alcohol-facilitated sexual perpetration. Kent State University
provides an exceptional environment for Dr. Anderson to achieve the above goals. The training plan optimizes
the resources of the Department of Psychological Sciences and the unique proximity to multiple research
universities nearby (Case Western Reserve, Northeast Ohio Medical) to achieve these goals. Dr. Anderson’s
mentors are highly regarded scientists in the areas of alcohol-facilitated intimate partner violence, longitudinal
research on sexual perpetration, quantitative methods in clin...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10475664
- **Project number:** 5K01AA026643-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
- **Principal Investigator:** RaeAnn Anderson
- **Activity code:** K01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $156,789
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-20 → 2024-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10475664

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10475664, Identifying High-Risk Periods and People for Alcohol-Facilitated Sexual Violence Perpetration in College Men (5K01AA026643-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10475664. Licensed CC0.

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