Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President St., STE MC406, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA.
J Trauma Stress. 2010 Apr;23(2):198-206. doi: 10.1002/jts.20509.
The authors review the literature on help-seeking behavior among adult victims of crime. Specifically, they summarize prevalence rates for formal and informal help seeking and review predictors of and barriers to service use following victimization. Research suggests that only a small fraction of crime victims seek help from formal support networks; however, many seek support from informal sources. Several variables are associated with increased likelihood of formal help seeking, although the manner in which these variables affect reporting behavior is not clear. From this review, it is concluded that much remains to be learned regarding patterns of help seeking among victims of crime. Gaps in the literature and directions for future research are discussed.
作者回顾了成人犯罪受害者寻求帮助行为的文献。具体来说,他们总结了正式和非正式寻求帮助的流行率,并审查了受害后使用服务的预测因素和障碍。研究表明,只有一小部分犯罪受害者向正式支持网络寻求帮助;然而,许多人从非正式来源寻求支持。有几个变量与更有可能寻求正式帮助有关,尽管这些变量影响报告行为的方式尚不清楚。从这一综述可以得出结论,对于犯罪受害者寻求帮助的模式,还有很多需要了解。讨论了文献中的空白和未来研究的方向。