School of Psychology, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6102, Australia.
Theseus Risk, Cavalier Court, Cheltenham SN14 6LH, UK.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Apr 6;17(7):2506. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17072506.
Epidemiological data suggest that as many as 0.66% of adult women and 0.17% of adult men in the western world may suffer the subjective experience of being group-stalked ('gang stalked') at some point in their lives. Yet the gang stalking experience has been subject to little scientific study. This paper reports an attempt to elicit the core phenomena involved in gang-stalking by allowing them to emerge de novo through the qualitative analysis of accounts of individuals who describe being gang-stalked. Fifty descriptions of gang-stalking that satisfied study inclusion criteria were identified from the internet and subjected to content analysis. Twenty-four core phenomena were elicited, together with 11 principal sequelae of the experience of being gang-stalked. These were then divided into groups, producing a framework for the phenomena of the gang-stalking experience. The results were compared with frequencies of the same categories of experience then extracted from the original data of the only previous study on gang-stalking phenomena. Whilst the methodology of the current study was more rigorous, the core phenomena were similar in each. The current study confirmed the seriousness of the sequelae of the gang-stalking experience. These support the need for further exploration of the phenomenon, for which this study forms a basis.
流行病学数据表明，在西方世界，多达 0.66%的成年女性和 0.17%的成年男性可能在其一生中的某个时刻经历过被群体跟踪（“被团伙跟踪”）的主观体验。然而，对团伙跟踪现象的科学研究却很少。本文报告了通过允许通过定性分析描述被团伙跟踪的个体的描述来首次引出团伙跟踪中涉及的核心现象的尝试。从互联网上确定了 50 份符合研究纳入标准的团伙跟踪描述，并对其进行了内容分析。引出了 24 个核心现象，以及被团伙跟踪的 11 个主要后果。然后将这些现象分为几组，为团伙跟踪现象产生了一个框架。将这些结果与从以前唯一一项关于团伙跟踪现象的研究的原始数据中提取的相同类别的体验的频率进行了比较。虽然当前研究的方法更严格，但每个研究中的核心现象都相似。本研究证实了团伙跟踪体验后果的严重性。这些支持需要进一步探索这种现象，本研究为此提供了基础。
