TY  - JOUR
A1  - Romero-Sanchez, Monica
A1  - Skowronski, Marika
A1  - Bohner, Gerd
A1  - Megias, Jesus L.
T1  - Talking about ‘victims’, ‘survivors’ and ‘battered women’
BT  - how labels affect the perception of women who have experienced intimate partner violence (‘Víctimas’, ‘supervivientes’ y ‘mujeres maltratadas’: cómo influyen las etiquetas en la percepción de las mujeres que han sufrido violencia por parte de sus parejas)
JF  - International Journal of Social Psychology : Revista de Psicología Social
N2  - Two studies addressed effects of the labels 'victim', 'battered woman' and 'survivor' on the perception of women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). Spanish undergraduates provided free associations (Study 1; N = 54) and completed semantic differentials (Study 2; N = 142) regarding the labels. Results showed that the term 'survivor' evoked more positive associations and ratings than both 'victim' and 'battered woman', which did not differ from each other. At the same time, however, when asked directly, participants rated 'survivor' as the least appropriate term. These seemingly opposing findings replicate research on the terms' use in sexual aggression. Results were independent of individuals' acceptance of myths about IPV or knowing a woman who has experienced IPV. Implications for the use of specific language when communicating about IPV are discussed.
KW  - intimate partner violence
KW  - labelling
KW  - social judgement
KW  - survivor
KW  - victim
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2020.1840232
SN  - 0213-4748
SN  - 1579-3680
VL  - 36
IS  - 1
SP  - 30
EP  - 60
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Routledge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schuster, Isabell
A1  - Tomaszewska, Paulina
T1  - Pathways from child sexual and physical abuse to sexual and physical intimate partner violence victimization through attitudes toward intimate partner violence
JF  - Journal of family violence
N2  - Although many studies have shown that victims of child abuse have an increased vulnerability to revictimization in intimate relationships, the underlying mechanisms are not yet sufficiently well understood. Therefore, this study aimed at examining this relationship for both sexual and physical forms of violence as well as investigating the potential mediating role of attitudes toward sexual and physical intimate partner violence (IPV). Also, the potential moderating role of gender was explored. Sexual and physical child abuse and IPV victimization in adulthood as well as attitudes toward the respective form of IPV were assessed among 716 participants (448 female) in an online survey. The path analyses showed that child sexual abuse was positively linked to sexual IPV victimization among both women and men, whereas child physical abuse was positively associated with physical IPV victimization among women only. Furthermore, the relationship between both forms of child abuse and IPV victimization was mediated through more supportive attitudes toward the respective forms of IPV, but only among men. This study provides novel insights regarding the links between sexual and physical child abuse and revictimization in adulthood, suggesting that supporting attitudes toward IPV may be seen as vulnerability factor for revictimization. The moderating role of gender is especially discussed.
KW  - child abuse
KW  - intimate partner violence
KW  - attitudes toward intimate partner violence
KW  - gender
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-020-00180-2
SN  - 0885-7482
SN  - 1573-2851
VL  - 36
IS  - 4
SP  - 443
EP  - 453
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -