Project Summary Alcohol-involved sexual violence (SV) is a major public health issue among young women. Research consistently shows that SV in which the victim had been drinking at the time of the assault can have an especially detrimental impact on survivors’ mental and physical health. Moreover, survivors who were drinking are more likely than those were not drinking to receive negative reactions—such as blame, disbelief, or minimization—in response to disclosure of their SV experiences to informal support providers (e.g., friends, family, significant others). These negative reactions are consistently linked to more negative psychosocial outcomes for survivors. Despite the clear importance of reactions to disclosure, one glaring gap in the literature linking negative disclosure responses to adverse psychosocial outcomes among survivors is a lack of knowledge about the content of disclosures made by survivors. That is, studies to date have simply asked survivors about the social reactions they received to disclosures, without assessing the language they use when disclosing their victimization. The present study seeks to fill this gap. The content of survivors’ disclosures—particularly their disclosure of alcohol use and the extent to which they express self-blame and label their experience as assaultive—may be important mechanisms through which alcohol impairment at the time of abuse impacts negative social reactions from supports. Three Aims will be pursued to test these suppositions. First, replicating past work, we expect that women who report greater impairment from alcohol use will receive greater negative reactions from informal supports. Second, we predict that the relationship between greater impairment and greater negative reactions will be indirect by way of a) more detail about impairment, b) greater self-blame, and c) less label use within the disclosure. Finally, to characterize the content of disclosure and desired outcomes for women survivors of alcohol-involved SV, in-depth qualitative interviews will be conducted with a purposeful subsample of survivors and their informal disclosure recipients. Testing hypotheses for Aims 1 and 2 will be accomplished with online survey data collected from a national sample of 550 women aged 18-25 who report an adult SV in which they consumed alcohol prior to the event and first disclosed the experience to an informal support provider. Aim 3 will be accomplished though in-depth qualitative interviews conducted separately with a purposeful subsample of survey participants (n = 30) and their informal support providers (n = 30). This mixed methods approach has the potential to increase the breadth and depth of our understanding of the disclosure process while better informing interventions to educate disclosure recipients to react in a supportive fashion (i.e., by decreasing negative reactions).