Predictors of Sexual Aggression among a National Sample of Male College Students

@article{Koss1988PredictorsOS,  title={Predictors of Sexual Aggression among a National Sample of Male College Students},  author={Mary P. Koss and Thomas E. Dinero},  journal={Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences},  year={1988},  volume={528},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:20521569}}
An approximately representative national sample of 2,972 male students at 32 U.S. institutions of higher education was surveyed regarding their use of several degrees of verbal coercion and physical…

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