Southern African Social Work Students’ Acceptance of Rape Myths: Results from an Exploratory Study

Abstract

Despite numerous interventions to promote gender equality, sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest prevalence rates of non-partner sexual assault in the world, thus constituting a major social and public health issue in the region. As social workers frequently provide services to this population, an exploratory cross-sectional study was conducted to explore rape myth acceptance among undergraduate social work students studying in Namibia. Findings revealed the positive influence of social work education in reducing rape myth acceptance as well as highlighted the influence of age, gender, country of origin, self-identification as a feminist, and religiosity on rape myth acceptance among this population.

Mitos de violación, creencias que justifican la violencia sexual: una revisión sistemática

“…Estos resultados se reportan sin variaciones relevantes a lo largo de los once años de investigación (Custers & McNallie, 2016;Hill & Marshall, 2018;Manoussaki & Hayne, 2019;Poerwandari et al, 2019;Rollero & Tartaglia, 2018;Stoll et al, 2018). Otras de las variables ideológicas que evidencian tener relación positiva con los mitos de violación son: religiosidad, autoritarismo de derecha, creencia de un mundo justo y dominancia social (Canto et al, 2014;Ensz & Jankowski, 2017;Hammond et al, 2011;Matthews et al, 2018;Navarro & Tewksbury, 2017a, 2017bRomero-Sánchez et al, 2017).…”