Sexual Victimization of College Women Scale – SVCW

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made you have sexual intercourse by using force or threatening to harm you or someone close to you? (By intercourse, this means putting a penis in your vagina.)

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made you have oral sex by force or threat of harm? (By oral sex, this means someone’s mouth or tongue making contact with your vagina or anus, or your mouth or tongue making contact with someone else’s genitals or anus.)

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made you have anal sex by force or threat of harm? (By anal sex, this means putting a penis in your anus or rectum.)

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone ever used force or threat of harm to sexually penetrate you with a foreign object? (This means, for example, placing a bottle or finger in your vagina or anus.)

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone attempted but not succeeded in making you take part in any of the unwanted sexual experiences mentioned above? (For example, threatening or trying but not succeeding to have vaginal, oral, or anal sex, or trying unsuccessfully to penetrate your vagina or anus with a foreign object or finger.)

Not counting the types of sexual contact already mentioned, have you experienced any unwanted or uninvited touching of a sexual nature since school began in the Fall? (This includes forced kissing, touching of private parts, grabbing, fondling, and rubbing up against you in a sexual way, even if it is over your clothes.)

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone attempted or threatened but not succeeded in unwanted or uninvited touching of a sexual nature?

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made or tried to make you have sexual intercourse or sexual contact when you did not want to by making threats of nonphysical punishment (such as lowering a grade, being demoted or fired from a job, damaging your reputation, or being excluded from a group)?

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made or tried to make you have sexual intercourse or sexual contact when you did not want to by making promises of rewards (such as raising a grade, being hired or promoted, being given a ride or class notes, or getting help with course work)?

Since school began in the Fall, has anyone made or tried to make you have sexual intercourse or sexual contact when you did not want to by simply being overwhelmed by someone’s continual pestering and verbal pressure?

Not counting any incidents already discussed, have you experienced any other type of unwanted or uninvited sexual contact since school began in the Fall? (This includes experiences that may or may not have been reported, with strangers or people you know, in any location, and while you were awake, asleep, drunk, or otherwise incapacitated.)