Assessing the Impact of Gender-Neutral Language on Disclosure of Sexual Violence
Assessing the Impact of Gender-Neutral Language on Disclosure of Sexual Violence
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DOI：
10.1037/a0028562
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发表时间：
2012-07-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Cook, Sarah L.
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作者：
Anthony, Elizabeth R.;Cook, Sarah L.
目的：在最近修订的性经验调查（SESR）中，采用了性别中立的语言，促使我们对调查语言对受害和犯罪经历披露的影响进行实验研究。我们的理论是，控制异性恋互动的规范和脚本使口头胁迫、酒精丧失行为能力和威胁/身体暴力（SESR中询问的策略）的使用正常化，以获得性行为。此外，我们认为性别特定的语言传达了这些策略的正常化，因为它突出了占主导地位的异性恋范式。我们假设，在性别中立的语言SESR条件下，与性别特定的语言SESR条件下的参与者相比，更多的参与者会报告语言胁迫、酒精丧失能力和威胁/身体强迫事件。方法：我们采用两个2 × 2的受试者间因子设计来测量不同种族的年轻大学男女样本（N = 448）中每种策略的自我报告事件。结果：使用逻辑回归分析，我们发现在不同的调查语言条件下，口头胁迫、酒精丧失行为能力、威胁或身体强迫事件的披露没有差异。结论：由于报告的无效发现，我们得出结论，研究人员应该使用性别中立语言编写的SESR，因为这将促进研究的标准化，并允许评估同性受害和犯罪。
Objective: The adoption of gender-neutral language in the recently revised Sexual Experiences Survey (SESR) prompted this experimental investigation regarding the effect of survey language on disclosure of victimization and perpetration experiences. We theorized that norms and scripts governing heterosexual interaction normalize the use of verbal coercion, alcohol incapacitation, and threatened/physical force (tactics queried in the SESR) to obtain sexual behavior. Further, we suggest gender-specific language conveys the normalization of these tactics, as it makes salient the dominant heterosexual paradigm. We hypothesized that more participants in a gender-neutral language SESR condition would report verbally coerced, alcohol-incapacitated, and threatened/physically forced incidents than participants in a gender-specific language SESR condition. Method: We employed two 2 x 2 between-subjects factorial designs to measure self-reported incidents of each tactic among an ethnically diverse sample of young college women and men (N = 448). Results: Using logistic regression analyses, we found no differences in disclosure of verbally coerced, alcohol-incapacitated, or threatened or physically forced incidents between survey language conditions. Conclusions: As a result of the reported null findings, we conclude researchers should use the SESR, which is written in gender-neutral language, as this will facilitate standardization across studies and allow for the assessment of same-sex victimization and perpetration.