RT Article
T1 Intimate Partner Violence and Openness to Online Counseling Among College Students
JF Journal of family violence
VO 38
IS 4
SP 611
OP 621
A1 Nelson, Abbie
A2 Allen, Jennifer
A2 Cho, Hyunkag
A2 Yun, Sung Hyun
A2 Choi, Yoon Joon
A2 Choi, Ga-Young
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1842552600
AB Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent and has devastating consequences for college students. Online counseling (OC) may be a way to decrease barriers to help. This study seeks to determine openness to OC compared to face-to-face counseling (F2F) by examining: (1) How openness to OC varies depending on college students’ personal and IPV characteristics and (2) How these characteristics vary compared to college non-IPV survivors. Two linear regressions were conducted using a sample from a cross sectional survey. First with the entire sample of college students (N = 1,518) to examine characteristics of those more open to OC and second with only those that identified as experiencing IPV (n = 1,211). The results demonstrated that IPV survivors are less open to OC than to F2F counseling (b = -.23, p < .01). For the model with all college students, those who were significantly more open to OC were female (b = -.39, p < .001), identified as LGBT (b = .23, p < .05), or Asian/Pacific Islander (API) (b = .26, p < .05), and had a physical health issue (b = -.19, p < .05). For the model that only analyzed IPV survivors, the same characteristics were shown to be significantly related to openness to OC. More research is needed to explore why IPV survivors are less open to OC compared to F2F counseling. Exploring why characteristics of female, LGBT, and physical health issues lead to openness to OC could help understand what barriers need to be addressed for wider use.
K1 Openness to online counseling
K1 College students
K1 Online counseling
K1 Intimate Partner Violence
DO 10.1007/s10896-022-00396-4