3rd World Congress on Nursing, Healthcare & Allied Health (Hybrid Event)

Biography

George Smeaton has served as an educator, researcher, administrator, and consultant with over 30 years of experience in higher education. Dr. Smeaton received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1987, and has published extensively on topics such as sexual aggression, unsafe sexual activity, and student substance abuse.  His most recent research examines predictors of sexual aggression, and factors motivating acts of sexual aggression conducted by male and female perpetrators.  In his professional career, he has served as a professor of psychology, and as an academic administrator for three higher education institutions. Currently, he serves as principal of a research consulting firm.

Research Interest

Three individual motivations for the perpetration of sexual aggression have been proposed:  the need for power and control (Brownmiller, 1975; Dworkin, 1981), the pursuit of sexual pleasure (Ellis, 1998; Malamuth et al.,1995), and the need to establish a relationship or find intimacy (Anderson & Struckman-Johnson, 1998; Zurbriggen, 2000).   The present study was conducted to determine the degree to which each of these three motivations contributed to the decision to engage in an act of sexual aggression among a sample of sexually aggressive adult heterosexual men and women.