“I Realized that I couldn’t Act Normal”: a Qualitative Study of Sexual Assault Survivors’ Experiences of Workplace Disclosure
“I Realized that I couldn’t Act Normal”: a Qualitative Study of Sexual Assault Survivors’ Experiences of Workplace Disclosure
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“我意识到我无法表现正常”：性侵犯幸存者工作场所披露经历的定性研究
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Erin O’Callaghan
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作者：
Katherine Lorenz;Erin O’Callaghan
性侵犯会给幸存者带来心理、身体和经济上的后果。性侵犯造成的痛苦会导致与工作相关的后果，如生产力下降、工资损失或工作表现下降。与工作相关的后果或其他与性侵犯有关的因素可能导致幸存者向工作场所的某人透露。研究考察了求助、披露和社会反应，但忽视了幸存者工作场所的披露和社会反应，以及工作场所的社会反应对幸存者康复的影响。通过对28名性侵幸存者的社区访谈样本，我们探讨了6名在工作场所披露的幸存者的工作场所披露经历。具体来说，我们探讨了幸存者披露的原因，收到的社会反应，以及这如何影响他们的康复使用主题分析。研究结果显示，驱使员工在工作场所披露信息的是一种感觉，即他们别无选择，只能披露信息，否则就会丢掉工作，类似于强迫披露的概念。幸存者收到了积极和消极的社会反应，影响了他们的康复和就业状况。最后，我们讨论了基于我们的发现对研究、工作场所政策和雇主实践的影响。初步研究结果表明，强迫披露可能适用于工作场所，我们建议对来自不同工作场所的幸存者进行更多样化的工作场所披露样本进行进一步研究。未来的研究还应该考虑制度背叛在检查工作场所对幸存者的反应时所起的作用。
Sexual assault results in psychological, physical, and financial consequences for survivors. The distress caused by sexual assault can lead to work-related consequences such as loss of productivity, lost wages, or a decline in job performance. Work-related consequences or other assault-related factors may lead survivors to disclose to someone in their workplace. Research has examined help-seeking, disclosure, and social reactions, but has neglected to study disclosure and social reactions in survivors’ places of employment as well as the impact of workplace social reactions on survivor recovery. Using a community sample of interviews with 28 sexual assault survivors, we explored the experiences of workplace disclosure among a subsample of 6 survivors who disclosed in the workplace. Specifically, we explored survivors’ reasons for disclosure, the social reactions received, and how this affected their recovery using thematic analysis. Results reveal that workplace disclosure is driven by feeling like they had no choice but to disclose or lose their job, akin to the concept of compelled disclosure. Survivors received positive and negative social reactions that affected their recovery and employment status. We conclude with a discussion of implications for research, workplace policy, and employer practices based on our findings. With preliminary findings suggesting that compelled disclosure may apply to the workplace context, we make recommendations for further research on workplace disclosure with a more diverse sample of survivors from a variety of workplaces. Future research should also consider the role of institutional betrayal when examining workplace responses to survivors.