scholarly journals Women’s Narratives of Trauma: (Re)storying Uncertainty, Minimization and Self-Blame

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrina Brown
Keyword(s):  
Self Blame ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Uncertainty Minimization

Silent Survivors

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 596-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Heath ◽  
Shannon M. Lynch ◽  
April M. Fritch ◽  
Lyn N. McArthur ◽  
Shilo L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Female Offenders ◽  
Rape Myths ◽  
Rape Myth ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Rape Victims ◽  
State Prison ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Situational Characteristics

Prior research suggests that rape victims who do not disclose or report to the police give reasons including self-blame and fear of judgment; however, this research has not been conducted with incarcerated women. Female offenders are a unique population because they experience high rates of sexual assault prior to incarceration. This study recruited 74 women at a U.S. state prison, who experienced sexual assault prior to incarceration to explore the associations among rape myth acceptance (RMA), disclosure, and reporting of sexual assaults to the authorities. Participants were asked open-ended questions regarding why they chose to disclose their sexual assaults to others, to report to the police, or to remain silent. Narratives were audiotaped, transcribed, and coded for thematic content. Women’s narratives, particularly those of women who indicated that they remained silent, frequently included a variety of rape myths that involved blaming themselves for the rape, fearing not being believed, believing that familiar perpetrators cannot be rapists, and questioning whether the event was really a rape. Women often described such rape myth beliefs with greater frequency than discussing situational characteristics of the rape as reasons for nonreporting. Implications for these findings in clinical, research, and social justice contexts are discussed.

scholarly journals “I should have …”:A Photovoice Study With Women Who Have Lost a Man to Suicide

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1262-1274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve Creighton ◽  
John L. Oliffe ◽  
Joan Bottorff ◽  
Joy Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Bereavement Support ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Feminine Ideals ◽  
Experiences Of Women

While the gendered nature of suicide has received increased research attention, the experiences of women who have lost a man to suicide are poorly understood. Drawing on qualitative photovoice interviews with 29 women who lost a man to suicide, we completed a narrative analysis, focused on describing the ways that women constructed and accounted for their experiences. We found that women’s narratives drew upon feminine ideals of caring for men’s health, which in turn gave rise to feelings of guilt over the man’s suicide. The women resisted holding men responsible for the suicide and tended to blame themselves, especially when they perceived their efforts to support the man as inadequate. Even when women acknowledged their guilt as illogical, they were seemingly unable to entirely escape regret and self-blame. In order to reformulate and avoid reifying feminine ideals synonymous with selflessly caring for others regardless of the costs to their own well-being, women’s postsuicide bereavement support programs should integrate a critical gender approach.

Coping Style as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Deliberate Self-Harm

Crisis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 272-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison S. Christian ◽  
Kristen M. McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Deliberate Self Harm ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Deliberate self-harm (DSH) occurs with high frequency among clinical and nonclinical youth populations. Although depression has been consistently linked with the behavior, not all depressed individuals engage in DSH. Aims: The current study examined maladaptive coping strategies (i.e., self-blame, distancing, and self-isolation) as mediators between depression and DSH among undergraduate students. Methods: 202 students from undergraduate psychology courses at a private university in Southern California (77.7% women) completed anonymous self-report measures. Results: A hierarchical regression model found no differences in DSH history across demographic variables. Among coping variables, self-isolation alone was significantly related to DSH. A full meditational model was supported: Depressive symptoms were significantly related to DSH, but adding self-isolation to the model rendered the relationship nonsignificant. Limitations: The cross-sectional study design prevents determination of whether a casual relation exists between self-isolation and DSH, and obscures the direction of that relationship. Conclusions: Results suggest targeting self-isolation as a means of DSH prevention and intervention among nonclinical, youth populations.

Black jobless suffer despair, self-blame

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Wolinsky
Keyword(s):  
Self Blame

Health delivery: Self-blame, lack of support increase stress in AIDS

1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Mervis
Keyword(s):  
Self Blame ◽  
Health Delivery

Perceptions of Threat and Self-Blame in a Multiethnic Sample of Children Exposed to IPV

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria M. Galano ◽  
Andrew Grogan-Kaylor ◽  
Hannah Clark ◽  
Sandra Graham-Bermann
Keyword(s):  
Self Blame ◽  
Multiethnic Sample

Self-blame as a Mediator of Avoidance Coping Among Rape Survivors

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giannina E. Cabral ◽  
Courtney Ahrens
Keyword(s):  
Avoidance Coping ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Rape Survivors

Threat and Self-Blame Marital Conflict Appraisals in Anxiety Versus Depression

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan Marnell ◽  
Neil R. Hester ◽  
Catherine C. Epkins ◽  
Heather Rozea
Keyword(s):  
Marital Conflict ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Conflict Appraisals
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