Attributions of Blame and Credibility in a Hypothetical Child Sexual Abuse Case: Roles of Victim Disability, Victim Resistance and Respondent Gender

Autor/inn/en	Rogers, Paul; Titterington, Leigh; Davies, Michelle
Titel	Attributions of Blame and Credibility in a Hypothetical Child Sexual Abuse Case: Roles of Victim Disability, Victim Resistance and Respondent Gender
Quelle	In: International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 56 (2009) 3, S.205-228 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1034-912X
Schlagwörter	Sexual Abuse; Multivariate Analysis; Credibility; Victims of Crime; Child Abuse; Role; Gender Differences; Physical Disabilities; Mental Retardation; Comparative Analysis; Resistance (Psychology); Criminals; Foreign Countries; Vignettes; Questionnaires; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Multivariate Analyse; Glaubwürdigkeit; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Rollen; Geschlechterkonflikt; Physical handicap; Körperbehinderung; Geistige Behinderung; Resistenz; Straftäter; Ausland; Fragebogen
Abstract	This study examines the effects victim disability (physical vs. intellectual vs. none), victim resistance (physical vs. verbal vs. none) and respondent gender (male vs. female) have on attributions of blame and credibility in a hypothetical case of child sexual abuse. Three hundred and thirty-five respondents read a fictional police statement regarding the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl by a 23-year-old man before completing 28 attribution items. Principal axis factoring revealed six reliable factors. Subsequent multivariate analysis of covariance--controlling for respondents' general attitude towards disability--revealed that males deemed the victim more culpable for her own abuse than did females. Further, perpetrators were deemed more culpable when the victim physically (vs. verbally) resisted. Finally, a significant three-way interaction suggests victim resistance influences attributions of perpetrator blame given a victim's disability status, at least amongst male observers. Implications and proposals for future research are discussed. (Contains 28 notes, 3 tables, and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10