Knowing a Rape Victim, Personal Sexual Victimization Experience, and Gender Predicting Rape Victim Empathy

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Victims & Offenders Pub Date : 2021-10-19 DOI:10.1080/15564886.2021.1991068

S. Osman

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Empathy with a rape victim was examined based on knowing a rape victim (not oneself), personal sexual victimization experience, and participant gender. Undergraduates (n = 531) at a midsize public university in the Northeast United States completed the Rape-Victim Empathy Scale, the Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Victimization, and questions regarding knowing a rape victim. Empathy scores were greater for those who reported knowing a rape victim than for those who did not. Women with personal sexual victimization experience reported greater empathy than men with personal sexual victimization experience and all nonvictims, but no differences emerged among female nonvictims and all men. Findings suggest that knowing a rape victim may provide some degree of vicarious experience with rape that helps individuals better understand a rape victim’s perspective, and factors influencing rape empathy among men and nonvictims needs more attention in future research.

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认识强奸受害者、个人性受害经历与性别预测强奸受害者共情

摘要基于对强奸受害者（而非自己）的了解、个人性受害经历和参与者性别，对强奸受害者的移情进行了调查。美国东北部一所中型公立大学的本科生（n=531）完成了强奸受害者移情量表、性经历调查简式受害者化以及关于认识强奸受害者的问题。那些报告认识强奸受害者的人的移情得分高于那些不认识的人。有个人性侵害经历的女性比有个人性伤害经历和所有非暴力经历的男性表现出更大的同理心，但非暴力女性和所有男性之间没有差异。研究结果表明，了解强奸受害者可能会提供一定程度的强奸替代体验，帮助个人更好地理解强奸受害者的观点，影响男性和非女性强奸移情的因素需要在未来的研究中得到更多关注。

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Victims & Offenders CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

CiteScore

4.10

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： Victims & Offenders is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an interdisciplinary and international forum for the dissemination of new research, policies, and practices related to both victimization and offending throughout the life course. Our aim is to provide an opportunity for researchers -- both in the United States and internationally -- from a wide range of disciplines (criminal justice, psychology, sociology, political science, economics, public health, and social work) to publish articles that examine issues from a variety of perspectives in a unique, interdisciplinary forum. We are interested in both quantitative and qualitative research, systematic, evidence-based reviews, and articles that focus on theory development related to offenders and victims.