“It is all her fault”: psychosocial correlates of the negative attitudes towards rape victims among the general population of Pakistan

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Table 5 Regression coefficients for rape myths acceptance, rape victim empathy, subscales of rape myths acceptance, and subscales for causal attributions towards sexual violence scale

Variable	B	β	SE	P	95% CI
Constant
Step 1
Rape myths acceptance	0.35	0.34	.03	.000	[0.43, 0.28]
Rape victim empathy	−.00	.00	.04	0.854	[−.09, .07]
ΔR²	0.12
Step 2
Rape myths acceptance	.00	.00	.03	0.991	[−.06, .06]
Rape victim empathy	.03	.03	.03	0.278	[−.02, 0.10]
She asked for it	1.19	0.30	0.14	.000	[1.47, 0.91]
It was not really rape	0.74	0.16	0.19	.000	[1.12, 0.35]
She lied	1.21	0.31	0.15	.000	[1.52, 0.90]
He did not mean to	0.60	.09	0.25	.017	[1.09, 0.10]
He did not mean to (alcohol)	0.13	.02	0.18	0.492	[0.49, 0.24]
ΔR²	0.54
Step 3
Rape myths acceptance	.00	.00	.02	0.99	[.05, .05]
Rape victim empathy	.04	.03	.03	0.127	[.01, .09]
She asked for it	0.73	0.18	0.12	.000	[0.97, 0.50]
It was not really rape	0.45	.09	0.16	.006	[0.76, 0.13]
She lied	0.57	0.14	0.13	.000	[0.84, 0.30]
He did not mean to	0.12	.02	0.15	0.423	[0.44, 0.18]
He did not mean to (alcohol)	0.19	.03	0.20	0.360	[0.59, 0.21]
Victim’s self-attribution	−0.70	0.15	0.15	.000	[0.40, 1.00]
Behavioral self	1.66	0.25	0.53	.002	[2.71, 0.62]
External attribution	2.62	0.64	0.34	0.145	[1.93, 3.30]
ΔR²	0.69