Managing Privacy and the Decision to Disclose: Disclosures of Sexual Victimization

Pluretti, Roseann; Chesebro, Joseph L.

doi:10.1080/01463373.2015.1078826

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“…Determining whether to disclose requires a calculus using a "rule-based management system" (Petronio, 2002(Petronio, , 2004, and when disclosures are high risk, individuals'boundary management is higher (Kennedy-Lightsey et al, 2012), which may result in increased selectivity in whom they confide. Those seeking to disclose often seek others with similar experiences, as well as certain personality characteristics that suggest their reactions will be supportive and caring (Lewis et al, 2011;Pluretti & Chesebro, 2015). In their study examining disclosure rationales for sexual assault victims within a CPMT framework, Pluretti and Chesebro (2015) found three overarching themes within individuals' rationales to disclose: feeling urgency to disclose after an assault, wanting to be forthright, or seeking support from a disclosure recipient.…”

Section: Disclosure Process and Campus Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recipients of sexual violence disclosure have great influence over survivors’ feelings as well as their subsequent actions (Pluretti & Chesebro, 2015). Sexual assault victims often experience negative reactions to disclosure (Herman, 2005).…”

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“…Those seeking to disclose often seek others with similar experiences, as well as certain personality characteristics that suggest their reactions will be supportive and caring (Lewis et al, 2011; Pluretti & Chesebro, 2015). In their study examining disclosure rationales for sexual assault victims within a CPMT framework, Pluretti and Chesebro (2015) found three overarching themes within individuals’ rationales to disclose: feeling urgency to disclose after an assault, wanting to be forthright, or seeking support from a disclosure recipient.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Explaining the Why in #WhyIDidntReport: An Examination of Common Barriers to Formal Disclosure of Sexual Assault in College Students

Griffin¹,

Wentz²,

Meinert³

2021

J Interpers Violence

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Within the current study, we examined themes of college students’ reasons for choosing not to formally disclose (report) sexual assault. To complete this objective, we examined tweets ( n = 1,297) that used the WhyIDidntReport hashtag in which a user also made reference (within the same thread) to being enrolled at a college or university during the time (and aftermath) of the assault. We deemed Twitter a particularly valuable platform, offering insight into the hidden figure of crime, as users described events, feelings, and perceptions after the event that led to them not formally disclosing. Further, it provides a large sample of cases of women and men who recognize their assault as an assault (at least in hindsight), while also providing open-ended, unstructured explanations of their rationales and motivations. Using an inductive approach, we established broad themes that were then refocused into common barriers of formal disclosure or the continuation of formal disclosure. Subthemes included anticipated social reactions (stemming from vicarious and direct experiences), internalized emotions, often stemming from social reactions (normalization, shame, and blame), victim and offender status, and victim-offender relationship. Three overarching premises were developed from the analysis including (a) victims’ internalizations of experiences and observations, (b) the interaction of social factors of the victim, offender, and the victim-offender relationship, and (c) the continual and compounded decision-making process of formal disclosure. These conclusions were then examined within theoretical models, including Black’s Behavior of Law Theory (specifically morphology and stratification), Overstreet and Quinn’s intimate partner violence stigmatization model, and Chaudoir and Fisher’s disclosure process model. Lastly, we provide programmatic recommendations, which includes retailoring current bystander intervention curricula to include more focus on social reactions and social support in anticipation of college students being recipients of sexual assault disclosures by friends and acquaintances.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Explaining the Why in #WhyIDidntReport: An Examination of Common Barriers to Formal Disclosure of Sexual Assault in College Students

Griffin¹,

Wentz²,

Meinert³

2021

J Interpers Violence

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“…In cases where young adult female survivors decided to withhold this information, Mahlstedt and Keeny (1993) found that survivors believed romantic relationship matters are private and feared friends would try to control their relationships. Other scholars found that disclosure of violence gives the recipient a great deal of power, which can be helpful or harmful, depending on how the recipient initially responds, provides support, and uses the information in the future (Pluretti & Chesebro, 2015).…”

Section: Communicating Relational Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating a History of Sexual Trauma: Partner Responses to Women's Disclosure

Lukacena

Mark

2021

Violence Against Women

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The study aimed to understand how women who experienced sexual trauma but are now in a healthy relationship perceive their partners’ responses to their disclosure of sexual trauma. Forty-one women completed an in-depth semi-structured phone interview. Responses were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis, identifying two overarching themes and six subthemes. The results provide a voice to the needs and preferences of women who experienced sexual trauma, but are navigating communication in a healthy relationship. Given that most women disclosed their experiences with partners, this sample provides valuable insight for clinicians, interventionists, and partners of survivors to navigate supportive interactions.

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“…Survivors of sexual violence often feel a need to disclose their experiences to someone with whom they are close (Harvey, Orbuch, Chwalisz, & Garwood, 2001). Pluretti and Chesebro (2015) found that survivors choose to disclose to a person with whom they can identify on some level. Survivors of sexual assault are more likely to report positive experiences of self-disclosure if they and their confidants have similar personalities (Botta & Pingree, 1997).…”

Section: Choosing a Confidantmentioning

confidence: 99%

"They are Supposed to be There for Me": Using Thematic Analysis to Understand Sexual Assault Disclosures in Hispanic Families

Hernandez¹

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Managing Privacy and the Decision to Disclose: Disclosures of Sexual Victimization

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Explaining the Why in #WhyIDidntReport: An Examination of Common Barriers to Formal Disclosure of Sexual Assault in College Students

Explaining the Why in #WhyIDidntReport: An Examination of Common Barriers to Formal Disclosure of Sexual Assault in College Students

Communicating a History of Sexual Trauma: Partner Responses to Women's Disclosure

"They are Supposed to be There for Me": Using Thematic Analysis to Understand Sexual Assault Disclosures in Hispanic Families

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