{"title":"Book Review: From menstruation to the menopause: The female fertility cycle in contemporary women’s writing in French","authors":"Adina Stroia","doi":"10.1177/03616843221126934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843221126934","url":null,"abstract":"of the impact of sexual misconduct in our culture and how it influences all people. They emphasize the powerful and positive impact that #MeToo has had on American culture by revealing widespread incidents of sexual misconduct, and they don’t fall into the trap of seeing all men as perpetrators and all women as victims. Wexler and Sweet maintain a helpful balance as they navigate these complex and highly charged issues. They help us understand that sexual misconduct covers a whole spectrum of behaviors and demonstrate that there are many different contexts that need to be considered. They point out there are a number of issues that make supportive therapy challenging, including topics such as how social media tends to tell only one side of the story and how men might have difficulty finding their voice in the movement. The second part of the book builds on the first, offering positive strategies for clinicians and educators. In it, the authors address important issues that most clinicians and educators face, including two very sensitive and helpful chapters on working with men as well as a chapter on empowering women. There is a chapter on sexual misconduct on campus that offers guidance for stopping the spread of sexist behavior and one on addressing sexual harassment in the workplace and how to recognize and address toxic attitudes and behaviors. Two final chapters demonstrate the value of having two highly qualified clinicians, one male and one female, as co-authors of the book. The chapter on working with couples is extremely helpful in applying the wisdom offered in the earlier chapters to the challenges faced by men and women in intimate relationships. It helps everyone to bridge the potential gender gap that might cause divisiveness in our world. In the last chapter, creating a culture of alliance, the co-authors remind us that we are all in this together. They offer specific steps about how all people can take creative and effective action on #MeToo-informed issues. This book is a great gift and a very helpful resource for everyone, professional counselors and educators, as well as interested men and women who care about gender equality and healing.","PeriodicalId":48275,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":"539 - 540"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44473680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Matsuzaka, Laura Jamison, Lanice R. Avery, Karen M. Schmidt, Alexis G. Stanton, Katrina J. Debnam
{"title":"Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale: Measurement Invariance Across Sexual Orientation","authors":"S. Matsuzaka, Laura Jamison, Lanice R. Avery, Karen M. Schmidt, Alexis G. Stanton, Katrina J. Debnam","doi":"10.1177/03616843221118339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843221118339","url":null,"abstract":"Gendered racial microaggressions are often assessed using the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale. Despite its use with mixed samples of heterosexual and sexual minority Black women, this instrument has yet to be evaluated for its measurement invariance across sexual orientation. This study evaluated the measurement invariance of the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale across sexual orientation (heterosexual [n = 1,147] versus lesbian, gay, or bisexual [LGB], n = 359) in a sample of 1,506 Black cisgender women ages 18–30 years old. The Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale's four-factor structure, including Beauty and Sexual Objectification, Silenced and Marginalized, Strong Black Woman, and Angry Black Woman, was replicated with our sample. Results from the multigroup confirmatory factor analysis indicated the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale had configural, metric, and scalar invariance across sexual orientation groups. Strict invariance was not established. Multi-group comparison of latent factor mean scores revealed Black LGB women as having higher Beauty and Sexual Objectification scores than Black heterosexual women on the Gendered Racial Microaggressions stress appraisal scale. The Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale can be recommended in meaningfully assessing differences in latent factor mean scores among Black heterosexual and LGB women. Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers should seek to address the role of intersectional microaggressions in the lived experiences of sexual and gender minorities of color, including as it relates to systemic disadvantage and health, mental health, and social disparities.","PeriodicalId":48275,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":"518 - 530"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47088441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Heuristic Cues on Jurors’ Systematic Information Processing in Rape Trials","authors":"Faye T. Nitschke, Blake M. McKimmie, E. Vanman","doi":"10.1177/03616843221118018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843221118018","url":null,"abstract":"There is concern that jurors’ decisions in rape trials might be influenced by misleading cues (e.g., victim stereotypes) potentially explaining disproportionately low conviction rates. We investigated the bias hypothesis from the heuristic–systematic model as an explanation for how jurors may be influenced by misleading stereotypes even while they are effortfully processing rape trial evidence. We expected that when case evidence was ambiguous, stereotypes would guide motivated participants’ effortful information processing, but not when case evidence was strong. Mock jurors (N = 901) were asked to make decisions about a rape trial with either ambiguous or strong evidence in which the complainant was either stereotypically distressed or unemotional giving evidence. Participants were either placed under high motivation conditions to encourage effortful information processing or in a control condition with low motivation instructions to encourage less effortful processing as a comparison. Participants’ information processing and case decisions were measured as key dependent variables. We found partial support for the hypothesized interaction and the bias hypothesis, suggesting that the types of evidence participants attended to in decision-making were influenced by misleading stereotypical cues. Our findings have implications for interventions to reduce the effect of misleading stereotypes on decisions in rape trials. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/03616843221118018.","PeriodicalId":48275,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":"484 - 500"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42373564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna E Jaffe, Jessica A Blayney, Macey R Schallert, Madison E Edwards, Emily R Dworkin
{"title":"Social Network Changes and Disclosure Responses after Sexual Assault.","authors":"Anna E Jaffe, Jessica A Blayney, Macey R Schallert, Madison E Edwards, Emily R Dworkin","doi":"10.1177/03616843221085213","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03616843221085213","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social support after sexual assault is important for recovery, but violence and recovery may also challenge relationships. We examined functional and structural social support changes following sexual assault and their association with mental health. College women (<i>N</i>=544) with and without a sexual assault history completed a cross-sectional survey assessing current and past egocentric social networks. Functional support (perceived global support, assault disclosure, perceived helpfulness of responses) and structural support (network density, size, retention) were examined. Multilevel models revealed that, relative to non-survivors, survivors reported smaller, less dense past networks, but similarly sized current networks. Survivors retained less of their networks than non-survivors, and network members who provided unhelpful responses to disclosure were less likely to be retained. Structural equation modeling revealed that, among survivors, perceived unhelpful responses to disclosure and a greater loss of network members were associated with worse mental health. Findings suggest that survivors may experience a restructuring of social networks following sexual assault, especially when network members respond in unhelpful ways to disclosure. Although survivors appeared to build new relationships, this restructuring was associated with more mental health problems. It is possible that interventions to improve post-assault social network retention may facilitate recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":48275,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women Quarterly","volume":"46 3","pages":"299-315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10449006/pdf/nihms-1863931.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10133629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: #MeToo-informed therapy: Counseling approaches for men, women, and couples","authors":"J. Diamond","doi":"10.1177/03616843221123017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843221123017","url":null,"abstract":"and the scholar interested in reviewing the current state of research in this area of study. As such, The Secret Life of Secrets covers content that is relevant to multiple disciplines. Slepian paints a convincing picture of secrecy as a common and consequential phenomenon in people’s individual and relational life. The reader’s attention is captured by examples from Slepian’s own personal life (e.g., he shares a long-kept family secret), masterfully combined with knowledge from his decadelong academic career, and real-life examples of secrets in movies, news, and public events. Slepian aims to develop readers’ understanding of the connection between secrecy and well-being. He starts by presenting ethological and developmental studies that reflect on the evolutionary and personal functions of having secrets (Chapters 1 and 2). Then, readers are familiarized with key concepts that constitute the basis of secrecy processes: mindwandering to secrets, concealing them, confiding, and confessing secrets (Chapters 3–5). As concepts are described, Slepian links secrecy processes to their impact on well-being and offers some practical strategies to help people cope with their secrets. For instance, in Chapter 4, Slepian maps three dimensions (how moral or immoral one’s secret is; whether a secret supports or damages one’s relationships; and whether a secret is kept for a clear reason or goal). Those dimensions provide the background to three specific strategies Slepian suggests will help people cope with the negative impact of secrets. Despite this broad through-line, Slepian provides a nuanced view of how secrecy impacts individual well-being. Departing from the traditional view that secrets are bad for well-being because they involve active concealment in social interactions, Slepian’s work shows that being left alone and thinking about one’s secrets is the most detrimental aspect of secrecy. This points to novel solutions for managing the negative effect of secrecy. Of course, disclosure and sharing with a good confidant (i.e., someone empathic yet assertive) is one option to limit the impact of secrets. Yet, for those who do not consider disclosure as possible or effective, Slepian offers a more nuanced and contextual approach to keeping and managing secrets. His studies identify three dimensions in which a secret can hurt: shame, isolation, and lack of insight. Along those distinct avenues, Slepian suggests using a coping compass to alleviate the cognitive burden of keeping a secret. First, he encourages readers to remember that mistakes can be left in the past and used as learning opportunity. Second, he suggests thinking of how keeping secrets benefits others. Finally, he reminds readers to recognize the reasons for keeping the secret. Further, Slepian offers some practical strategies to employ in conversations to protect one’s secrets. Finally, in Chapters 7 and 8, the focus moves to positive secrets and the known cultural factors involved in copi","PeriodicalId":48275,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":"538 - 539"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42039867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Diversity and social justice in counseling, psychology, and psychotherapy: A case study approach","authors":"Birdie Bezanson","doi":"10.1177/03616843221119973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843221119973","url":null,"abstract":"Kassan and Moodley are well positioned to provide a critical perspective on counseling, psychology, and psychotherapy practices that are born out of White, European psychological traditions. Kassan, director of Vividathà Research Group in the School and Applied Child Psychology program at the University of British Columbia, and Moodley, director of the Center for Diversity in Counseling and Psychotherapy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, bring a wealth of experience, both personal and professional. Their goal, it seems, was to bring both a discussion that centers on race through an anti-racism lens while inviting the complicating aspects of intersectionality. Each author in the edited book provides a practical case study that applies the information from the chapter to a real case from their professional practice. This section brings the challenges alive and highlights the nuances of the complex presentation of the many multis of our multifaceted identities; culture, ethnicity, race, gender, sex, class, ability, faith, age, to name a few. Each chapter ends with a section that explores implications for practice, training, research, and policy. The book, divided into five sections, draws authors from across North America and beyond with varied professional and personal positionalities. Part I deconstructs the Western scientific worldview that privileges it over other ways of knowing by exploring Indigenous knowledge, critical race theory, and a critical review of multicultural and social justice (SJ) competencies. The final chapter in this section offers a “third space of counseling” (p. 54), where clinicians are called to put SJ and diversity into action by seeking to address causes of oppression moving beyond simply trying to reduce individual suffering. Part II and III more specifically speak to understanding how well-known theories of psychology are conceptualized through an SJ lens and from the perspective of contemporary diverse lenses. Thankfully, the authors do not shy away from providing practical suggestions for clinical practice. Although hard to choose the most impactful chapter, Cheshire and Noldy-MacLean’s chapter on Slow Intersectionality offers up pragmatic guidance on how to avoid a reductionist approach and bring a multifaceted perspective of identity into clinical work. Part IV introduces the Group of Seven Identities, race/culture/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability/spirituality, and age while providing space for weight bias and ethical nonmonogamy. And finally, Part V steps outside the borders of Canada and the United States to address the internationalization of counseling, psychology, and psychotherapy. This section pushes anticolonial thinking by considering systemic disparities utilizing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, the newcomer experience of youth seeking education in North America, a human rights perspective of ethical practice, and finally a look at lesso","PeriodicalId":48275,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":"537 - 537"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45978486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bonnie Moradi, Mike C. Parent, Sumaiya F. Nusrath, Marissa R. Falk
{"title":"Psychology of Women Quarterly: Citation Network Analysis of Its Landscape and Evolution","authors":"Bonnie Moradi, Mike C. Parent, Sumaiya F. Nusrath, Marissa R. Falk","doi":"10.1177/03616843221119972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843221119972","url":null,"abstract":"Psychology of Women Quarterly (PWQ) is a leading outlet for feminist psychology research. To elucidate the interrelations of PWQ publications over time, we conducted a citation network analysis of its 2,747 articles and 4,517 citation links. Of the 16 citation clusters that emerged, many echoed key elements of PWQ's scope. These included Cluster 1: feminist consciousness and sexism; Cluster 2: body image and objectification; Cluster 3: feminist psychology, epistemology, and methodology; Cluster 4: gender and educational and occupational experiences; Cluster 5: rape and sexual assault; Cluster 6: power and violence in close relationships; Cluster 7: sexual harassment and workplace discrimination; and Cluster 8: women and power with attention to race and nation. Areas of citation disconnection revealed avenues for resisting citation silos and advancing pantheoretical feminist frameworks on the continuum of patriarchal violence. Small and discontinued clusters were areas ripe for feminist revisiting (e.g., reproductive justice). PWQ articles were cited in an increasing number and breadth of journals over time. These findings can inform authors, reviewers, and editors to advance the next decades of scholarship in PWQ in ways that resist citation silos, revive research on critical domains of women's lives, and foster the feminist edge of our scholarship.","PeriodicalId":48275,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women Quarterly","volume":"47 1","pages":"16 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44717414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The secret life of secrets: How our inner worlds shape well-being, relationships, and who we are","authors":"V. Bianchi, Katharine H. Greenaway","doi":"10.1177/03616843221119965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843221119965","url":null,"abstract":"Kassan and Moodley are well positioned to provide a critical perspective on counseling, psychology, and psychotherapy practices that are born out of White, European psychological traditions. Kassan, director of Vividathà Research Group in the School and Applied Child Psychology program at the University of British Columbia, and Moodley, director of the Center for Diversity in Counseling and Psychotherapy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, bring a wealth of experience, both personal and professional. Their goal, it seems, was to bring both a discussion that centers on race through an anti-racism lens while inviting the complicating aspects of intersectionality. Each author in the edited book provides a practical case study that applies the information from the chapter to a real case from their professional practice. This section brings the challenges alive and highlights the nuances of the complex presentation of the many multis of our multifaceted identities; culture, ethnicity, race, gender, sex, class, ability, faith, age, to name a few. Each chapter ends with a section that explores implications for practice, training, research, and policy. The book, divided into five sections, draws authors from across North America and beyond with varied professional and personal positionalities. Part I deconstructs the Western scientific worldview that privileges it over other ways of knowing by exploring Indigenous knowledge, critical race theory, and a critical review of multicultural and social justice (SJ) competencies. The final chapter in this section offers a “third space of counseling” (p. 54), where clinicians are called to put SJ and diversity into action by seeking to address causes of oppression moving beyond simply trying to reduce individual suffering. Part II and III more specifically speak to understanding how well-known theories of psychology are conceptualized through an SJ lens and from the perspective of contemporary diverse lenses. Thankfully, the authors do not shy away from providing practical suggestions for clinical practice. Although hard to choose the most impactful chapter, Cheshire and Noldy-MacLean’s chapter on Slow Intersectionality offers up pragmatic guidance on how to avoid a reductionist approach and bring a multifaceted perspective of identity into clinical work. Part IV introduces the Group of Seven Identities, race/culture/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability/spirituality, and age while providing space for weight bias and ethical nonmonogamy. And finally, Part V steps outside the borders of Canada and the United States to address the internationalization of counseling, psychology, and psychotherapy. This section pushes anticolonial thinking by considering systemic disparities utilizing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, the newcomer experience of youth seeking education in North America, a human rights perspective of ethical practice, and finally a look at lesso","PeriodicalId":48275,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":"537 - 538"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45731292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alba Moya-Garófano, Miguel Moya, J. L. Megías, Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón
{"title":"Ambivalent Sexism and Women’s Reactions to Stranger Harassment: The Case of Piropos in Spain","authors":"Alba Moya-Garófano, Miguel Moya, J. L. Megías, Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón","doi":"10.1177/03616843221115339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843221115339","url":null,"abstract":"Piropos, a form of stranger harassment typical in Spain, consist of appearance-related comments that unknown men direct at women in public spaces, such as on the street. There is some controversy within Spanish society as to whether piropos should be rejected or accepted––at least a certain type of them. In this research, we analyzed how young Spanish women perceive piropos and tested whether women’s evaluation and emotional reactions to them depend on the type of piropo (“mild” or “lewd”) and participants’ ambivalent sexism. Women participants (N = 288) indicated their evaluation and emotional reactions to a mild or lewd piropo (having also a control condition where no piropo was presented) in a between-participants design. Results showed that the lewd piropo elicited lower happiness and feelings of power and greater anger-hostility than the mild piropo and the control condition. Similarly, the mild piropo also generated lower happiness and feelings of power and greater anger-hostility and anxiety than the control condition. We also conducted eight moderated mediation analyses, four each with participants’ hostile sexism scores and participants benevolent sexism scores as the predictor variable, using participants’ evaluation of the piropo as the mediator and the type of piropo (i.e., lewd or mild) as the moderator. The dependent variable on each analysis constituted the reactions of happiness, feelings of power, anger-hostility, and anxiety. Results revealed that relation between endorsing hostile sexism beliefs, while controlling for benevolent sexism beliefs, and emotional reactions to both types of piropos can be explained through participants’ evaluations of the piropos. In contrast, no indirect effect was found between benevolent sexism beliefs, when controlling for hostile sexism beliefs, and emotional reactions. Our results suggest that educating the public about the negative consequences of both types of piropos on women and reducing hostile sexism beliefs may help to eradicate street piropos. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ’s website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/03616843221115339.","PeriodicalId":48275,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":"454 - 467"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44901471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}