City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR.
Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
J Interpers Violence. 2020 Oct;35(19-20):3710-3734. doi: 10.1177/0886260517711180. Epub 2017 May 29.
Most studies of stalking are conducted with samples from individualist cultures. Little is known about the phenomenon within collectivist cultures. The present study is arguably the first stalking study conducted in Hong Kong. Specifically, this study investigates a large sample of Asian college students' ( = 2,496) perceptions of stalking behavior, potential reasons for stalking, and coping strategies that may be employed by stalking victims. Associations between these variables and gender and culture (Hong Kong vs. Mainland China) were also explored. Gender was more strongly associated with perceptions of stalking behavior than was culture. Gender was less strongly associated with perceptions concerning motivations for stalking and the effectiveness of coping strategies that may be employed by stalking victims than was culture. Effect sizes for all associations with culture were small, perhaps due to a high degree of similarity between the two cultures examined. The findings are generally supportive of similar results produced by previous work conducted within individualistic Western cultures, suggesting that stalking and the way that it is perceived may be universal in nature. This study concludes with the argument that legislation against stalking needs to be extended to non-Western countries, such as Hong Kong and Mainland China, as antistalking laws are relatively scarce outside Western industrialized countries.
大多数关于跟踪的研究都是在个人主义文化的样本中进行的。对于集体主义文化中的这种现象知之甚少。本研究可以说是在香港进行的第一项跟踪研究。具体来说，这项研究调查了大量亚洲大学生（n=2496）对跟踪行为的看法、跟踪的潜在原因以及跟踪受害者可能采用的应对策略。还探讨了这些变量与性别和文化（香港与中国大陆）之间的关系。性别与对跟踪行为的看法的关联比文化更密切。与跟踪动机和跟踪受害者可能采用的应对策略的有效性有关的看法，性别与文化的关联不如文化密切。所有与文化相关的关联的效应量都很小，这可能是由于所研究的两种文化之间存在高度相似性所致。这些发现普遍支持在个人主义西方文化中进行的先前工作所产生的类似结果，表明跟踪及其被感知的方式可能具有普遍性。本研究最后认为，需要将反跟踪立法扩展到非西方国家，如香港和中国大陆，因为除了西方工业化国家之外，反跟踪法律相对较少。
