Disclosure recipients’ social reactions to victims’ disclosures of intimate partner violence

Edwards, Katie M.

Disclosure recipients’ social reactions to victims’ disclosures of intimate partner violence Katie M. Edwards and Christina M. Dardis - Sage, 2016 - Journal of Interpersonal Violence .

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2016, Advance online publication, 30 November 2016

"Prior research indicates that victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) are most likely to disclose their victimization experiences to an informal support (e.g., friend, family), and that IPV disclosures are often met with both positive (e.g., empathic support) and negative (e.g., victim blame)
reactions. However, research on social reactions to disclosure largely has neglected the perspectives of disclosure recipients. Guided by the attribution framework, the current study extends prior research by assessing factors (i.e., situation-specific, individual, relational, attributional, and emotional response) related to positive and negative reactions from the perspective of disclosure recipients (N = 743 college students)." (From the abstract). Record #5242

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ATTITUDES
DISCLOSURE
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE


UNITED STATES