Understanding Discussions of Sexual Assault in Young Women on a Peer Support Mental Health App: A Content Analysis

Trauma narratives may have been influenced by the Me Too movement, with thousands of individuals disclosing sexual violence stories online. Youth, the largest demographic of online users, may prefer the anonymity of the Internet to discuss experiences of sexual assault. Understanding the ways that y...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:  
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Collaton, Joanna (Autor)
Otros Autores: Barata, Paula ; Lewis, Stephen P.
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2022
En: Journal of interpersonal violence
Año: 2022, Volumen: 37, Número: 23/24, Páginas: NP22811-NP22833
Acceso en línea: Volltext (kostenfrei)
Journals Online & Print:
Gargar...
Verificar disponibilidad: HBZ Gateway
Palabras clave:

MARC

LEADER 00000naa a22000002c 4500
001 1883772338
003 DE-627
005 20240319112359.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 240319s2022 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1177/08862605211073112  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1883772338 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1883772338 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 2,1  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |a Collaton, Joanna  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Understanding Discussions of Sexual Assault in Young Women on a Peer Support Mental Health App: A Content Analysis 
264 1 |c 2022 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Trauma narratives may have been influenced by the Me Too movement, with thousands of individuals disclosing sexual violence stories online. Youth, the largest demographic of online users, may prefer the anonymity of the Internet to discuss experiences of sexual assault. Understanding the ways that young women, especially those experiencing mental health difficulties, discuss their experiences is important as they are at higher risk of revictimization and continued poor mental health. We searched for terms related to acts of sexual assault on a mental health peer-support app, TalkLife, and compared the number of posts during the initial wave of the Me Too movement (October 2017?March 2018) to the same time period in the previous year (October 2016?March 2017). We found a significant increase in posts related to sexual assault of 49.7% between the Pre and Post Me Too time periods (p < .001), controlling for a general increase in posts. A content analysis of 700 randomly selected posts found that a substantial number of young women used TalkLife to discuss their experiences of sexual assault, and these self-disclosures were mostly hopeless or depressing in tone. Additionally, neither the nature nor the number of self-disclosures varied across time points. The negative tone of the self-disclosures in the current study is worrying because the way women talk about their trauma can shape how they understand it, which could lead to negative self-appraisal and continued mental health difficulties. Online spaces have the potential to support young women and facilitate help-seeking, but we must be attentive to how they are used. 
650 4 |a Me Too movement 
650 4 |a Mental Health 
650 4 |a online communication 
650 4 |a Sexual Assault 
650 4 |a Youth 
700 1 |a Barata, Paula  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Lewis, Stephen P.  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Journal of interpersonal violence  |d London [u.a.] : Sage, 1986  |g 37(2022), 23/24, Seite NP22811-NP22833  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)324614721  |w (DE-600)2028900-5  |w (DE-576)276556305  |x 1552-6518  |7 nnas 
773 1 8 |g volume:37  |g year:2022  |g number:23/24  |g pages:NP22811-NP22833 
856 |u https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08862605211073112  |x unpaywall  |z Vermutlich kostenfreier Zugang  |h publisher [open (via page says license)] 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211073112  |x Resolving-System  |z kostenfrei  |3 Volltext 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 4501665327 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1883772338 
LOK |0 005 20240319112359 
LOK |0 008 240319||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-2619  |c DE-627  |d DE-2619 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-2619 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 866   |x zotak: Nacherfasst, da in zota-Errors 
LOK |0 935   |a krzo 
OAS |a 1 
ORI |a SA-MARC-krimdoka001.raw