Violence Against Women最新文献

This study's objectives are to develop and validate a scale to assess obstetric violence (OV) experienced by women during pregnancy in Turkey. The scale consists of 18 items and three subdimensions: "Supportive Care and Information Support," "Achieving Professional Standards of Care and Effective Communication," and "Health Promotion." The scale explained 61% of the total variance. All goodness-of-fit indices indicated an acceptable fit between the model and the sample data. The overall Cronbach's α reliability coefficient was 0.91. The scale ranges from 0 to 72, with higher scores indicating more experience of OV.

The unsolicited reception of sexual images is understudied issue with important consequences for women. Our research with 392 Spanish women aged 18-45 years examined the frequency and prevalence of unsolicited genital images, the relationship with the sender, and women's reactions. Results showed that 74% of participants had received such images, mainly from strangers (45.7%) or known men (21.9%). Reactions included blocking, telling friends, expressing rejection, and ignoring. Hostile sexism and adherence to social norms were associated with more positive reactions. Educating about the negative impacts of unsolicited sexual images and addressing sexism and social norms may help combat cyber-sexual violence.

Sexual harassment is associated with disordered eating in young women, directly and indirectly, via body shame. However, today, young women are not only experiencing sexual harassment in-person, but also online. We recruited a non-clinical sample of young women (N = 146) to examine the direct and indirect relationships between online sexual harassment, disordered eating attitudes, and body shame. Findings revealed that online sexual harassment positively predicted disordered eating attitudes directly and indirectly, via body shame. These findings offer initial support for examining the utility of online sexual harassment and body shame to further understand disordered eating in young women.

Within the state of Victoria (Australia), male perpetrators of family violence are routinely referred to Men's Behaviour Change Programs (MBCP). This place based-based study included nine in-depth interviews with women from a regional city in Victoria, about their lived experiences of their partners' referral to an MBCP. The women's shared narratives were explored via Feminist Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. This analysis exposed the referral period as a time of pivotal assessment for the women - a time characterized by hope, blame, judgement, and indignation. This study emphasizes the need for community services to take into account the far-reaching implications an MBCP referral has for everyone it is intended to benefit.

This study explores public attitudes toward restorative justice (RJ) in cases of intrafamilial and extrafamilial sexual abuse within the Israeli multiethnic society. The research investigates the role of perceived offense severity and malleability beliefs, moderated by ethnic identity. Findings reveal that Jewish participants perceive intrafamilial offenses as more severe and show lower support for RJ, mediated by malleability beliefs. In contrast, Arab participants do not differentiate between intra- and extrafamilial offenses in terms of severity, and their support for RJ is less influenced by these factors. These results highlight cultural factors shaping support for RJ in sexual abuse cases.

Reproductive coercion, a form of gender-based violence, often co-occurs with intimate partner violence (IPV), potentially leading to health consequences. Relying on data from the Côte D'Ivoire Performance Monitoring for Action, we examine the association between (a) physical, sexual, and emotional IPV with reproductive coercion, and (b) IPV and reproductive coercion with health perceptions. About 5% of the sample experienced reproductive coercion in the past year. Emotional IPV and experiencing multiple types of IPV were associated with higher odds of reproductive coercion. Sexual IPV and experiencing multiple number of types of IPV were associated with negative health outcomes. Implications are discussed below.

This study develops a decision model aimed at prioritizing public policies to combat violence against women, considering the conflicting objectives involved in the decision-making process. The research combines value-focused thinking for problem structuring with the flexible and interactive tradeoff (FITradeoff) method for preference modeling. The objective is to develop a ranking of actions based on decision-maker preferences. Data were collected in a single interview through a semistructured discussion with the gender training manager at the Secretariat for Women of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil. Using FITradeoff, partial preference information was gathered, leading to a preliminary recommendation of 11 ranking levels. A complete ranking of 20 alternatives was later established. The findings offer insights for optimizing public policies.

This study analyzed drink spiking posts on Reddit, examining 91 threads and 14,284 comments to understand victim-survivor and bystander experiences. Our analysis produced four themes: contexts of drink spiking, harms experienced, immediate bystander actions, and long-term help-seeking. Drink spiking was often reported by women with male perpetrators, typically occurring in bars, private residences, or parties where alcohol was consumed and other drugs were likely administered without consent. Many victims described long-term mental health impacts and inadequate responses from emergency services. We recommend "alcohol and drug-facilitated sexual violence" as more inclusive terminology and highlight the need for interventions that validate victim-survivor experiences.

Current studies suggest relationships between sexual violence, stigma, and psychosocial functioning but cannot disentangle temporal relationships. We used longitudinal data from the Democratic Republic of Congo to fit models estimating whether stigma predicted the long-term psychosocial well-being of sexual-violence-exposed women who participated in a cognitive processing therapy trial. We found that felt stigma predicted depression and anxiety (β = 0.66, p = .005), traumatic stress (β = 0.54, p = .025), and sexual intimate partner violence (IPV; OR = 2.68, p = .044), but not other social (e.g., group membership) or violence-related (e.g., physical IPV) experiences. The results highlight the need for interventions that integrate stigma reduction alongside psychological care.

Evidence suggests that women worldwide experience mistreatment during institutional childbirth. This qualitative study aimed to explore obstetric violence in Portugal, specifically, its related factors and perceived impact. The inductive thematic analysis of 19 semi-structured interviews with women living in Portugal (22-41 years old), who identified themselves as victims, revealed six central themes: (1) obstetric violence, (2) the impact of obstetric violence, (3) victims' awareness, (4) coping strategies, and (5) explanatory factors. This study adds relevant evidence on what (experiences), why (explanatory factors), and how (processes and coping strategies) obstetric violence might occur, as well as its psychological, interpersonal, and physical impacts.