Does Perceived Injury Explain the Effects of Gender on Attributions of Blame for Intimate Partner Violence? A Factorial Vignette Analysis

Parker, Maggie; Mattson, Richard E.; Alexander, Erin F.; McKinnon, Allison M.

doi:10.1007/s10896-020-00229-2

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“…Effect sizes across significant main effects were mostly medium to large. These findings provide added nuance to previous research findings that IPV against men is perceived as less damaging (e.g., Allen & Bradley, 2018), less criminal (Cormier & Woodworth, 2008;Russell & Kraus, 2016), and less morally repugnant (Felson & Feld, 2009) than IPV perpetrated against women, in addition to other recent vignette-based studies in which male victims are considered as more blameworthy and less deserving of support than female victims (even when controlling for body size differences and perceived likelihood of physical injury; Parker et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 69%

“…Walker and colleagues’ findings and those of other studies (e.g., Dutton & Nicholls, 2005; Gueta & Shilchove, 2022; Winstok, 2017) detail a variety of gendered stereotypes applied to men who are IPV victims by individuals in their sphere, including friends, family, and social service and court officials. Various findings suggest that violence against men is perceived as less serious by lay third-parties (Felson & Feld, 2009; Hines et al, 2020), by psychologists (Follingstad et al, 2004), and by police (Cormier & Woodworth, 2008); that male victims are conjectured to be responsible for their victimization (Parker et al, 2020); that male perpetrators are rated by third parties as nine times more criminal than female perpetrators (even when controlling for body size and perceived injury; Parker et al, 2020); and that male victims are much less likely than female victims to acknowledge their victimhood, despite meeting well-defined behavioral criteria for victimization (Arnocky & Villancourt, 2014). Regarding Arnocky and Villancourt’s study, paradoxically, men with higher levels of personal IPV victimization history (as measured by the CTS2) were less likely than men with lower victimization to perceive hypothetical IPV behaviors against themselves as abusive, a potential real-world reflection of men’s rejection of the “victim” label.…”

Section: Prevalence and Outcomes Of Ipv Against Menmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Third-party perceptions of intimate partner violence victimization in men.

Thomas¹,

Hart²

2022

Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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Evidence is accumulating that men frequently experience and are harmed by intimate partner violence (IPV), although this form of IPV has only recently been studied. Recent studies suggest that social stereotypes may negatively influence men’s help-seeking and outcomes following IPV. We assessed the third-party perception of a man versus a women who experienced physical and psychological IPV. Using video vignettes of psychological/physical IPV that varied only in the gender of the perpetrator and victim, 168 participants recruited from an online survey platform and a Midwestern private university were randomly assigned to view an interaction depicting either a man or woman IPV victim. Participants rated their emotional response immediately after watching the vignette, followed by perceptions of the IPV victim and perpetrator. Participants reported less negative affect after viewing IPV perpetrated against a man versus against a woman, and male IPV victims were rated as deserving of less sympathy, less in need of medical, psychological, and legal help, and less successful, powerful, and socially desirable than female IPV victims. Post hoc analyses regarding perpetrator criminality and identification of the IPV victim using the “victim” label also differed by IPV victim gender. Our findings suggest that preconceived notions based on gender roles impede the identification of men as victims and likely influence their treatment by friends, medical and mental health care providers, and legal authorities. Further research is needed to inform the unique interpersonal and intrapersonal stereotyping that may explain men’s help-seeking and outcomes in IPV victimization.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 69%

Section: Prevalence and Outcomes Of Ipv Against Menmentioning

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Third-party perceptions of intimate partner violence victimization in men.

Thomas¹,

Hart²

2022

Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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“…We examined how participants assessed a given vignette scenario, variations of which involved the inclusion or absence of a gun, how the threatening message was delivered, and whether the couple in the vignette appeared to be Black or White. In this way, our study builds upon previous scholarship involving IPV vignettes (Harrison and Esqueda 2000; Parker et al 2022; Seelau and Seelau 2005; Seelau et al 2003; Sylaska and Walters 2014). This research design provides visibility not only into elements that affected participants’ levels of concern, but also onto factors of support for interventions in response to a given abusive dating encounter.…”

Section: The Present Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

How Americans Assess Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Groggel

Rojas

2023

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Most Americans view intimate partner violence as wrong. Less is known, however, about how the general population evaluates threats from romantic partners. When do third parties support interventions such as police involvement, restraining orders, or prohibiting the abuser from owning a gun? Through a survey-based experiment, participants reacted to a separated dating relationship scenario in which three elements were manipulated: the race of the couple, the medium of communication between the perpetrator and the victim, and whether the male character referenced a gun. Using a structural equation model, the authors find that the inclusion of a gun dramatically increases concern, which in turn fosters support for interventions. However, participants’ race and gender and the race of the couple shape these effects. When the victims in the separated dating scenario are Black, participants were less likely to call for the abuser to be prohibited from owning a gun, even when they have expressed concern about the situation. This suggests that although a gun has a clear and strong effect, racial and gender effects are more complex.

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“…Bauer, 2015;Bock et al, 2017;Simas, 2020); while research in social psychology, in turn, has examined the interplay of gender and blame in other contexts (e.g. Anderson & Lyons, 2005;Parker et al, 2020;van der Bruggen & Grubb, 2014). Yet we do not know whether-and under what conditions-gender influences how blame is attributed to elected representatives.…”

Section: Representative and Constituent Attributesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Public Consultations Reduce Blame Attribution? The Impact of Consultation Characteristics, Gender, and Gender Attitudes

Kevins

Vis

2021

Polit Behav

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Can public consultations—gatherings organised to solicit constituent opinions—reduce the blame attributed to elected representatives whose decisions end up backfiring? Using two pre-registered survey experiments conducted on nationally representative samples of US respondents, we examine whether the effectiveness of consultations as a blame avoidance tool may be shaped by: (1) consultation characteristics, especially regarding whether or not representatives align their policies, either actively or passively, with constituent opinion; and (2) elected representative and constituent characteristics, especially regarding a representative’s gender and constituents’ gender attitudes. Results suggest that public consultations are indeed liable to decrease blame attribution, just so long as constituent opinion is not explicitly opposed to the representative’s decision. Active alignment with constituent opinion, however, does not appear to be a requirement for decreased blame attribution—and effects related to gender and gender attitudes are also largely absent. These findings are important for scholars seeking to better understand blame attribution, clarifying how public consultations might help politicians to pre-empt blame by reducing clarity of responsibility.

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Does Perceived Injury Explain the Effects of Gender on Attributions of Blame for Intimate Partner Violence? A Factorial Vignette Analysis

Cited by 7 publications

References 47 publications

Third-party perceptions of intimate partner violence victimization in men.

Third-party perceptions of intimate partner violence victimization in men.

How Americans Assess Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Do Public Consultations Reduce Blame Attribution? The Impact of Consultation Characteristics, Gender, and Gender Attitudes

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