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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"social reactions"”.
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Social Reactions to Acquaintance Sexual Assault: Perceptions of Responsibility and Blame
Employing a mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology among undergraduate students at the University of Ottawa, this research has explored attributions about sexual assault and the role of perceived intoxication in the context of female and male victims of sexual assault. The use of …
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Do They Know What I Need? Social Reactions to Intimate Partner Violence Help Seeking
… have recently recognized, however, that the reactions that women receive from their informal supporters are not necessarily experienced as helpful or positive. Abused women may experience these social reactions from their informal helpers as positive, negative, neutral, or ambivalent. The …
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Disclosure, Social Reactions to Disclosure, and Mental Health Outcomes Among Adult Child Sexual Abuse Victims.
… CSA and mental health. However, the specific reactions a victim receives following disclosure may directly affect the impact that disclosure has on mental health. The current study directly and simultaneously evaluated the roles of disclosure and social reactions in relation to mental health …
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Social Reactions to Sexual Assault Survivors Presenting with PTSD: The Impact of Survivor Gender and Psychotherapy Treatment-Seeking Status
… public perceptions of and willingness to provide social support to survivors of sexual assault presenting with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) based on the survivor’s gender (male vs. female), psychotherapy treatment-seeking status (no treatment vs. dropped out after four sessions vs. still …
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SOCIAL REACTIONS TO DISCLOSURE OF TRAUMATIC CHILDBIRTH EXPERIENCES: ASSOCIATIONS WITH COPING, POSTTRAUMATIC COGNITIONS, AND TRAUMATIC STRESS AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMOLOGY
… (PTSD). Negative or unsupportive responses from social partners to disclosure (i.e., communication of personally relevant information, thoughts and feelings) of a traumatic event may maintain symptoms of psychological distress after the stressor has passed. Negative or unsupportive responses to …
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Sexual Assault on College Campuses: An Investigation of Psychological Well-Being and Reporting Behaviors of Female Victims
… related to attributions of blame and informal social reactions. For example, victims who blame their character typically have more symptoms of depression and anxiety, as well as, more overall distress. Negative social reactions to sexual assault disclosures have been associated with higher …
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Males' Support Toward Females After Sexual Assault
… myths, attitudes toward rape victims, perceived social support, sex role, and social reactions in a male undergraduate sample (N = 205). Males who have provided support to a sexual assault victim were compared to those who have not provided support to a sexual assault victim on several measures. …
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Barriers To Seeking And Obtaining Academic Accommodations In College Classrooms
… the student learns: (4) desire to avoid adverse social reactions; and (5) negative experiences with faculty. </p>
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A qualitative exploration of the perceived factors that influence alcohol consumption among South African girls and young women (AFYW) and the relationship with sexual risk behaviour
… negative emotions. Access to alcohol and social modelling were also perceived as influential factors. Alcohol consumption increased sexual risk through condomless sex and risk of sexual and physical violence against AGYW. Findings indicate that AGYW face negative social reactions to their …
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An Intervention Model for Recruiting Rape Victims into Treatment
The percentage of rape victims who do not seek social support after rape is alarming, particularly given the potential consequences of not seeking help. The present study attempts to address the dilemma of rape and attempted rape victims' lack of support seeking through a two-phase online …
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Friends' Responses to Disclosure of Intimate Partner Violence
… To achieve this, we modified the Ullman Social Reactions Questionnaire (SRQ) by incorporating two additional subscales (i.e., minimization and encouragement of relationship termination) based on qualitative data. The findings indicate that friends were more likely to provide emotionally …
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Being the parent of a child with a visible difference : a focus on parenting a child with a cleft lip and/or palate and limb difference
… ‘normality’; (3) managing and making sense of social reactions toward their child; (4) the intrinsic role of support: developing a collective connection and enabling shared knowledge. Clinical implications once more concern the provision of emotional support. In addition, the management of …
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The coping process of the unacknowledged rape victim
… as a result of the assault, such as negative social reactions and feelings of responsibility. In addition, it is hypothesized that unacknowledged victims may turn to maladaptive coping techniques to cope with this assault, and not acknowledging the rape may aid in facilitating and justifying …
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Risk and Resilience: Exploring the Ecological Factors that Impact the Recovery of Sexual Assault Survivors at Two Centres in the Western Cape
… often face secondary victimisation. In psychosocial settings, they have little access to counselling services with treatment being short-term and involving no follow-up procedure. These problematic legal and psychosocial barriers demonstrate a need to explore survivors' perspectives to …
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SOCIAL SUPPORT IN RELATION TO PARTNER CONFLICT AND PARTNER VIOLENCE: VIEWPOINTS OF SUPPORT RECIPIENTS AND SUPPORT PROVIDERS
… providers (Study 2) regarding the context of social support seeking due to a violent or non-violent conflict with a romantic partner. Study 1 participants (78 female, 78 male) and Study 2 participants (73 female, 89 male) identified predominantly as European-American (48.1% in Study 1 and 50% …
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Parents’ perceptions of the reactions of children in middle childhood that were involved in an armed robbery
The subject that was investigated was the reactions that children, in middle childhood, experienced after being involved in an armed robbery. There were three reasons for choosing this topic, the primary one being that the researcher has come across very little research around this topic. Another …
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Survivors of intrafamilial childhood sexual abuse: experiences of disclosure, family and parenting
… interviews focusing on disclosure experiences, reactions to disclosures, and family relationships. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results: Three overarching themes emerged from the data. …