Sexual assault remains an entrenched public health issue, with adolescent and emerging adult women at disproportionate risk for victimization. Identifying common typologies of sexual assault could be critical in developing effective prevention and intervention. However, prior work in this area has primarily utilized quantitative methodologies to classify sexual assaults into typologies, which may not capture important contextual factors and assault characteristics within typologies. The current study utilized a mixed methods approach, including analysis of survivors’ sexual assault narratives, to identify sexual assault typologies among a sample of college rape survivors (N = 106). Six typologies were identified, which were characterized by specific constellations of assault contexts, perpetration tactics, patterns of perpetrator and victim substance use, and type of relationship between survivor and perpetrator. Future research utilizing multiple methodologies (e.g., interviews, quantitative assessments) should attempt to characterize assault typologies more fully among survivors, as this work could lead to the identification of previously overlooked targets for comprehensive sexual assault prevention programs. Likewise, research focused on identifying risk and recovery-related factors among survivors of different types of assault could be used to tailor interventions to increase their uptake and effectiveness.

性侵犯仍然是一个根深蒂固的公共卫生问题，青少年和新兴成年女性受害的风险不成比例。确定性侵犯的常见类型对于制定有效的预防和干预措施至关重要。然而，该领域的先前工作主要利用定量方法将性侵犯分类为类型，这可能无法捕获类型中的重要背景因素和攻击特征。当前的研究采用了混合方法，包括对幸存者的性侵犯叙述进行分析，以识别大学强奸幸存者样本中的性侵犯类型（N  = 106）。确定了六种类型，其特点是攻击背景、犯罪策略、犯罪者和受害者物质使用模式以及幸存者和犯罪者之间的关系类型。未来利用多种方法（例如访谈、定量评估）的研究应尝试更全面地描述幸存者中的性侵犯类型，因为这项工作可能会导致识别以前被忽视的目标，以实施全面的性侵犯预防计划。同样，专注于识别不同类型攻击幸存者中的风险和恢复相关因素的研究可用于定制干预措施，以提高干预措施的采用率和有效性。