Deciding Whom to Tell: Expectations and Outcomes of Rape Survivors' First Disclosures

Autor/inn/en	Ahrens, Courtney E.; Campbell, Rebecca; Ternier-Thames, N. Karen; Wasco, Sharon M.; Sefl, Tracy
Titel	Deciding Whom to Tell: Expectations and Outcomes of Rape Survivors' First Disclosures
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 31 (2007) 1, S.38-49 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1111/j.1471-6402.2007.00329.x
Schlagwörter	Rape; Victims of Crime; Interviews; Disclosure; Qualitative Research; Multivariate Analysis; Social Support Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Sexuelle Gewalt; Vergewaltigung; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Qualitative Forschung; Multivariate Analyse; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung
Abstract	In this study, 102 female rape survivors were interviewed regarding their first post-assault disclosure. Qualitative analysis revealed that nearly 75% of first disclosures were to informal support providers and over one third of the disclosures were not initiated by the survivors themselves. Over half of the survivors received positive reactions and less than one third felt the disclosure had a detrimental impact on their recovery. Loglinear analysis suggested that survivors who actively sought help from informal support providers were more likely to receive positive than negative reactions. In contrast, survivors who actively sought help from formal support providers were more likely to receive negative than positive reactions. When disclosure to formal support providers was initiated by the formal support providers themselves, however, survivors received exclusively positive reactions. Implications for future research are discussed. (Author).
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