Talking About Interpersonal Violence: Cultural Influences on Latinas' Identification and Disclosure of Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence
Talking About Interpersonal Violence: Cultural Influences on Latinas' Identification and Disclosure of Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence
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DOI：
10.1037/a0018605
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Lopez, Maria del Carmen
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作者：
Ahrens, Courtney E.;Rios-Mandel, Laura Carolina;Lopez, Maria del Carmen
性侵犯和亲密伴侣暴力的拉丁裔幸存者的披露率较低可能与文化影响有关，这种文化影响使披露受到耻辱，并使识别性侵犯和亲密伴侣暴力的实例变得困难。为了补充现有文献，当前的研究对不同教育、移民和代际地位的讲西班牙语的拉丁裔进行了一系列 10 个焦点小组，以确定影响拉丁裔识别和披露性侵犯和亲密伴侣暴力事件能力的文化影响范围。结果表明，性别角色意识形态、关于婚姻的传统信仰、家庭主义、谈论性的禁忌、对权威的尊重、缺乏社区资源以及对暴力的恐惧以不同的方式运作，掩盖性侵犯和亲密伴侣暴力行为并为其辩护，并在此类行为发生时保持沉默。然而，大多数参与者还认为，其他人，特别是生活在国外的拉美裔人和生活在美国的老一代拉美裔人，比参与者本身持有更加保守和传统的信仰，这表明在文化信仰的接受度以及这些信仰影响拉美裔人识别和披露性侵犯和亲密伴侣暴力事件的能力的机制方面存在着重要差异。讨论了这些发现的意义。
Low rates of disclosure among Latina survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence may be related to cultural influences that stigmatize disclosure and make identifying instances of sexual assault and intimate partner violence difficult. In an effort to add to existing literature, the current study conducted a series of 10 focus groups with Spanish-speaking Latinas of varying educational, immigration, and generational statuses to identify the range of cultural influences that affect Latinas' ability to identify and disclose instances of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Results suggested that gender role ideologies, traditional beliefs about marriage, familism, taboos against talking about sex, respect for authority, lack of community resources, and fear of violence operate in different ways to obscure and justify acts of sexual assault and intimate partner violence and to maintain silence when such acts do occur. Yet, most participants also felt that other people, particularly Latinos living abroad and the older generation of Latinas living in the United States, held far more conservative and traditional beliefs than the participants themselves did, suggesting that important differences exist in both the acceptance of cultural beliefs and the mechanisms through which these beliefs affect Latinas' ability to identify and disclose instances of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Implications of these findings are discussed.