scholarly journals Image-based sexual abuse: A snapshot of New Zealand adults’ experiences

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Pacheco ◽  
Neil Melhuish ◽  
Jandy Fiske
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Margin Of Error ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Level Of Agreement ◽  
Image Based Sexual Abuse ◽  
New Zealanders

This report presents findings from a larger quantitative study about New Zealand adults’ experiences of harmful digital communications. The report focuses on the prevalence of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), and people’s attitudes regarding different aspects of it. The findings described in this report are based on data collected from a nationally representative sample. We conducted a survey-based study with 1,001 adult New Zealanders. Fieldwork took place between 30 May and 1 July 2018. The objectives of the IBSA questionnaire were to gauge prevalence among adult New Zealanders: both self-reported personal experiences and involvement with this behaviour. It also sought to explore participants’ level of agreement with IBSA related issues. The margin of error for this study was +/- 3.1% at a 95% confidence level on total results. This study is the first of its kind conducted in New Zealand.

scholarly journals Measuring trends in online hate speech victimisation and exposure, and attitudes in New Zealand

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Pacheco ◽  
Neil Melhuish
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Robust Evidence ◽  
People’S Perceptions ◽  
New Zealanders

Government agencies in New Zealand are not required to systematically collect data on online hate speech, thus, there is a lack of longitudinal evidence regarding this phenomenon. This report presents trends in personal experiences of and exposure to online hate speech among adult New Zealanders based on nationally representative data. The findings from this study are also compared with results from a similar research study conducted in 2018. In addition, this report explores people’s perceptions about other issues related to hate speech. The goal of this study is to fill some knowledge gaps regarding the extent and nature of hate speech in New Zealand. It also seeks to provide reliable and robust evidence to inform public conversation on the topic and the implementation of strategies and activities to ensure all New Zealanders, no matter what their characteristics, are safe online to benefit from the multiple opportunities of the digital environment.

scholarly journals Children's exposure to sexually explicit content: Parents’ awareness, attitudes and actions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Pacheco ◽  
Neil Melhuish
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
First Line ◽  
Online Safety ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Sexually Explicit ◽  
Explicit Content ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Children’S Exposure

Parents are key players in relation to the online safety of their children. However, while evidence shows that New Zealand teens regard their parents as the first line of support in dealing with online risks and challenges, parents seem to underestimate or be unaware of the frequency of such risks. This report presents findings from a larger quantitative study about parenting, digital technologies and online risks. It focuses on parents and caregivers’ awareness and attitudes towards their child’s access and exposure to sexually explicit content, both deliberately and/or accidentally, in the prior year. We conducted a quantitative survey with parents/whānau (and caregivers) of children aged 9 to 17 years old. The study was conducted in New Zealand based on a nationally representative sample. Our findings show that parents’ main online concerns are their children sharing nudes of themselves, being treated in a hurtful way, and seeing sexually explicit content. Also, the study found that 1 in 5 parents said their children were exposed to sexually explicit content online in the prior year.

scholarly journals The Art of Chronic Pain: Creating an Exhibition Proposal on Chronic Pain for a New Zealand Gallery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Melissa Wells
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Quota Sampling ◽  
New Zealanders

<p>The original idea for this research came from a combination of the work that Richard Sandell has done on social inclusion in the United Kingdom, and my personal experiences with chronic pain. The aim of this research is to make known the experiences of chronic pain survivors in New Zealand and also to bring understanding about a range of invisible illnesses where chronic pain is a major symptom. Research methods used include surveys using quota sampling and content analysis, case studies, and an exhibition proposal.  People living with chronic pain make up one in five New Zealanders, meaning just over 900,000 people have this condition/disability/illness. Yet, have you heard anyone talk about it? Cancer is often spoken about, but it only effects around 20,000 New Zealanders. Mental health problems are contemporaneous but only effect approximately 582,000 people in New Zealand. However chronic pain cannot kill, or can it? Many people who have chronic pain have other co-morbid disorders such as depression. Chronic pain needs more publicity, it yearns to be spoken about and understood. People with chronic pain have said that they feel misunderstood and unheard not only by family, friends and colleagues but also by their medical professionals as well.  This research looks at whether there would be support from both the chronic pain community and healthy New Zealanders for an art exhibition about chronic pain. The exhibition would contain art produced by people with chronic pain and depict their daily lives with their condition(s). It also offers a contribution to museum studies and current practice by attending to a gap in the New Zealand literature, not even well covered by overseas literature, on this subject. It is the first dissertation to focus on pain in a museum/gallery setting in New Zealand and opens up public interaction and discussion about a taboo topic.  New Zealand museums and galleries have to have the ability to challenge preconceived opinions and ideas about chronic pain, as well as the opportunity to engage with a large and often invisible community.</p>

scholarly journals The health of older New Zealanders in relation to housing tenure: analysis of pooled data from three consecutive, annual New Zealand Health Surveys

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Pledger ◽  
Janet McDonald ◽  
P Dunn ◽  
Jacqueline Cumming ◽  
K Saville-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Surveys ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Housing Tenure ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Pooled Data ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
New Zealanders

© 2019 The Authors Objective: To explore relationships between the housing tenure of older New Zealanders and their health-related behaviours, and physical and mental health. Methods: Pooled data were analysed for 15,626 older adults (aged 55+) from three consecutive, annual, nationally representative New Zealand Health Surveys to compare owner-occupiers, private renters and public renters. Results: Most in the sample were owner-occupiers (83.2%), with 12.4% private renters and 4.5% public renters. A higher proportion of renters aged 75+ were female. Māori and Pacific people were more likely to be renters. Renters were more likely to be living alone, on lower annual incomes. Overall measures of physical and mental health showed a health gradient, with public renters in the poorest health and owner-occupiers in the best health. Conclusions: Rental tenure is associated with poorer health. Implications for public health: Older renters tend to be economically disadvantaged and in poorer health than owner-occupiers. Over time, the proportion of older renters has been increasing. This will have implications for policy and for services in meeting the diverse care and support needs of older people. Higher rates of renting among Māori and Pacific people and older females means that these groups are particularly vulnerable to any negative impact of renting on health.

scholarly journals Image-Based Sexual Abuse: A Snapshot of New Zealand Adults’ Experiences

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Pacheco ◽  
Neil Melhuish ◽  
Jandy Fiske
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Image Based Sexual Abuse

scholarly journals Factsheet: Who is sending and sharing potentially harmful digital communications?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Melhuish ◽  
Edgar Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Digital Communications ◽  
The People ◽  
New Zealanders

This factsheet presents findings from a quantitative study looking at adults’ experiences of sending and sharing potentially harmful digital communications in New Zealand. Typically research into harmful digital communications focuses on the experiences of those on the receiving end – the victims. However, to better address the distress and harm caused, information is needed about the people sending and sharing potentially harmful messages and posts. In this study we asked adult New Zealanders whether they had sent potentially harmful digital communications in the previous year and if so, how often they had done this, who they were sent to, the channel(s) they used, and the reason for doing this.

scholarly journals ‘It’s Torture for the Soul’: The Harms of Image-Based Sexual Abuse

2020 ◽  
pp. 096466392094779
Author(s):  
Clare McGlynn ◽  
Kelly Johnson ◽  
Erika Rackley ◽  
Nicola Henry ◽  
Nicola Gavey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Image Based Sexual Abuse ◽  
Cross National

Beyond ‘scandals’ and the public testimonies of victim-survivors, surprisingly little is known about the nature and extent of the harms of ‘image-based sexual abuse’, a term that includes all non-consensual taking and/or sharing of nude or sexual images. Accordingly, this article examines the findings from the first cross-national qualitative study on this issue, drawing on interviews with 75 victim-survivors of image-based sexual abuse in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. We adopt a feminist phenomenological approach that permits more nuanced and holistic understandings of victim-survivors’ experiences, moving beyond medicalised, trauma-based accounts of harm. Our analysis develops five interconnected accounts of the harms experienced, that we have termed social rupture, constancy, existential threat, isolation and constrained liberty. Our findings shed new light on the nature and significance of the harms of image-based sexual abuse that emphasises the need for more comprehensive and effective responses to these abuses.

scholarly journals The health of older New Zealanders in relation to housing tenure: analysis of pooled data from three consecutive, annual New Zealand Health Surveys

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Pledger ◽  
Janet McDonald ◽  
P Dunn ◽  
Jacqueline Cumming ◽  
K Saville-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Surveys ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Housing Tenure ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Pooled Data ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
New Zealanders

© 2019 The Authors Objective: To explore relationships between the housing tenure of older New Zealanders and their health-related behaviours, and physical and mental health. Methods: Pooled data were analysed for 15,626 older adults (aged 55+) from three consecutive, annual, nationally representative New Zealand Health Surveys to compare owner-occupiers, private renters and public renters. Results: Most in the sample were owner-occupiers (83.2%), with 12.4% private renters and 4.5% public renters. A higher proportion of renters aged 75+ were female. Māori and Pacific people were more likely to be renters. Renters were more likely to be living alone, on lower annual incomes. Overall measures of physical and mental health showed a health gradient, with public renters in the poorest health and owner-occupiers in the best health. Conclusions: Rental tenure is associated with poorer health. Implications for public health: Older renters tend to be economically disadvantaged and in poorer health than owner-occupiers. Over time, the proportion of older renters has been increasing. This will have implications for policy and for services in meeting the diverse care and support needs of older people. Higher rates of renting among Māori and Pacific people and older females means that these groups are particularly vulnerable to any negative impact of renting on health.

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