Sexualized Victims of Stranger Harassment and Victim Blaming: The Moderating Role of Right-Wing Authoritarianism
| Autor: | Federica Spaccatini, Ilaria Giovannelli, Giulia Penone, Maria Giuseppina Pacilli, Michele Roccato |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Spaccatini, F, Pacilli, M, Giovannelli, I, Roccato, M, Penone, G |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Cultural Studies
Right-Wing Authoritarianism Sexualization Stranger harassment Victim blaming media_common.quotation_subject education Poison control 050109 social psychology sexualization right-wing authoritarianism victim blaming stranger harassment Suicide prevention 050105 experimental psychology Gender Studies Blame 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences health care economics and organizations media_common 05 social sciences Authoritarianism Right-wing authoritarianism social sciences humanities behavior and behavior mechanisms Harassment Attribution Psychology Social psychology |
| Popis: | A growing body of research documents the adverse effects of sexualized appearance on people’s attitudes toward women victims of blatant forms of gender violence. However, the impact of sexualization of women victims of subtle forms of gender violence and the moderating role of people’s conservativism on victim blaming remain under-investigated. In the current study, we examined the effects of sexualization on blame attribution to victims of a stranger harassment incident, considering the moderating role of participants’ Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA). Two hundred and thirty-six participants (31.8% male; Mage = 30.52, SD = 12.70) completed an RWA scale and then read a fictitious Facebook’s post where the victim herself described the stranger harassment episode that happened down the street (vs. at a house party). The post was presented with a sexualized (vs. non-sexualized) portrayal of the victim. Finally, participants rated the severity of the episode and expressed to what extent they blamed the victim. As predicted, harassment at the house party (vs. down the street) was perceived as less severe, and sexualized (vs. non-sexualized) victims were blamed to a greater extent. Our major results revealed that people’s RWA synergizes with the victim’s sexualization in shaping blame attribution. People with an average and a high level of RWA tend to blame to a greater extent the sexualized victim of stranger harassment, while blame attributions did not change according to victim’s sexualization for people with a low level of RWA. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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