The University of the South Pacific, Rewa, Fiji.
Università degli Studi di Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.
J Interpers Violence. 2022 Aug;37(15-16):NP14787-NP14806. doi: 10.1177/08862605211015260. Epub 2021 May 12.
Although there is growing evidence that receiving positive emotional support (e.g., empathy) facilitates improved mental health outcomes among intimate partner violence (IPV) victims, there has been minimal exploration of factors that might undermine the likelihood of such supportive responses. The current study addressed this issue by examining whether exposure to sexualized music videos would affect IPV victim-directed empathic responding of third-party respondents. In a three-condition design, 243 female Fijian university students viewed sexualized, nonsexualized, or neutral music videos. They then read about a male-to-female IPV incident involving a university student victim who focused heavily on academic success and rated aspiration-related culpability and empathic responding for the victim. Relative to those who viewed neutral and nonsexualized videos, those who viewed the sexualized video reported less victim-directed empathy. Moreover, the impact of video type on empathy was mediated by aspiration-related culpability (i.e., the perception that the victim studied too much). The present research examined, in an understudied, patriarchal population (Fijian women) with an extremely high rate of IPV, how exposure to sexualized music videos can contribute to both greater blame and greater desensitization to the suffering of an IPV victim. The importance of studying third-party responders (bystanders) is that they may represent a fundamental resource for the victim, or by contrast, if they fail to respond empathically, they would be unsupportive to a victim. This provides some directions for facilitating social controls and decreasing social tolerance for harmful patriarchal beliefs and gender-based violence in the Pacific Region of the world.
尽管越来越多的证据表明，接受积极的情感支持（例如同理心）有助于改善亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）受害者的心理健康状况，但对于可能破坏这种支持反应可能性的因素的研究却很少。本研究通过考察暴露于性化音乐视频是否会影响第三方回应者对 IPV 受害者的共情反应，解决了这个问题。在一个三条件设计中，243 名斐济女大学生观看了性化、非性化或中性的音乐视频。然后，他们阅读了一个涉及一名专注于学业成功的大学生受害者的男性对女性 IPV 事件，并对受害者的志向相关罪责和共情反应进行了评价。与观看中性和非性化视频的人相比，观看性化视频的人对受害者的共情反应较少。此外，视频类型对共情的影响被志向相关罪责（即受害者学习太多的感知）所中介。本研究在一个研究较少、父权制的人群（斐济女性）中进行，该人群的 IPV 发生率极高，研究了暴露于性化音乐视频如何既能增加对 IPV 受害者的指责，又能使其对受害者的痛苦更加麻木。研究第三方回应者（旁观者）的重要性在于，他们可能是受害者的基本资源，或者相反，如果他们不能共情回应，他们就不会支持受害者。这为促进社会控制、减少对有害的父权观念和基于性别的暴力在世界太平洋地区的社会容忍度提供了一些方向。
