“You Did It to Yourself”: An Exploratory Study of Myths About Gender-Based Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse Among Men

IF 3 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI:10.1007/s11199-024-01514-w

Esteban Morales, Jaigris Hodson, Yimin Chen, Chandell Gosse, Kaitlynn Mendes, George Veletsianos

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Gender-based technology-facilitated violence and abuse (GBTFVA) is a common experience for those engaging with digital technologies in their everyday lives. To better understand why GBTFVA persists, it is necessary to understand the false beliefs and cultural narratives that enable and sustain them. Drawing on the literature on rape myths, this paper explores the prevalence of seven gender-based online violence myths among Canadian men. To achieve this, we adapted the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance (IRMA) (Payne et al., in J Research in Personality 33:27–68, 1999) to assess GBTFVA, and surveyed 1,297 Canadian men between 18 and 30 years old on their GBTFVA beliefs. Our results show that GBTFVA myths and cultural narratives are prevalent across participants, though endorsement levels vary. Four myths were more strongly endorsed: It Wasn’t Really Gender-Based Online Abuse, He Didn’t Mean To, Gender-Based Online Abuse Is a Deviant Event, and She Lied. Overall, these findings help to name and thus begin to address the narratives that sustain and perpetuate gender-based online violence.

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"这是你自找的"：关于基于性别的技术促成的男性暴力和虐待神话的探索性研究

对于在日常生活中使用数字技术的人来说，基于性别的技术暴力和虐待（GBTFVA）是一种常见的经历。为了更好地理解基于性别的技术协助下的暴力和虐待（GBTFVA）持续存在的原因，有必要了解促成和维持这种现象的错误信念和文化叙事。本文借鉴了有关强奸迷思的文献，探讨了七种基于性别的网络暴力迷思在加拿大男性中的流行情况。为此，我们改编了伊利诺伊强奸迷思接受度（IRMA）（Payne 等人，发表于《人格研究》（J Research in Personality）33:27-68，1999 年）来评估 GBTFVA，并对 1,297 名 18 至 30 岁的加拿大男性进行了 GBTFVA 信仰调查。我们的结果表明，GBTFVA神话和文化叙事在参与者中普遍存在，但认可程度各不相同。有四种迷思得到了更强烈的认可：这不是真正的基于性别的网络虐待、他不是故意的、基于性别的网络虐待是一种异常事件以及她撒谎。总之，这些发现有助于揭示并开始解决维持和延续基于性别的网络暴力的叙事。

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期刊介绍： Sex Roles: A Journal of Research is a global, multidisciplinary, scholarly, social and behavioral science journal with a feminist perspective. It publishes original research reports as well as original theoretical papers and conceptual review articles that explore how gender organizes people’s lives and their surrounding worlds, including gender identities, belief systems, representations, interactions, relations, organizations, institutions, and statuses. The range of topics covered is broad and dynamic, including but not limited to the study of gendered attitudes, stereotyping, and sexism; gendered contexts, culture, and power; the intersections of gender with race, class, sexual orientation, age, and other statuses and identities; body image; violence; gender (including masculinities) and feminist identities; human sexuality; communication studies; work and organizations; gendered development across the life span or life course; mental, physical, and reproductive health and health care; sports; interpersonal relationships and attraction; activism and social change; economic, political, and legal inequities; and methodological challenges and innovations in doing gender research.