The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
J Interpers Violence. 2022 Oct;37(19-20):NP17758-NP17783. doi: 10.1177/08862605211028370. Epub 2021 Jun 29.
Social media sites such as Facebook have become popular platforms for promoting public awareness of sexual abuse by encouraging user engagement around this issue. There is, therefore, currently emerging research on the functions and implications of social media as a platform for sexual abuse disclosure. However, as yet, no study has examined this phenomenon specifically through a religious-cultural lens. This study explores perceptions of, barriers to, and motives underlying online disclosure of child sexual abuse (CSA) by religious authority figures (RAFs) in ultraorthodox Jewish society in Israel. The data were gleaned from the popular Facebook page of a nonprofit devoted to raising awareness of CSA in the ultraorthodox community. The analysis was based on admins' posts, anonymous and nonanonymous survivors' shares, users' comments, and in-depth interviews of eight page users. The findings suggest a culture-oriented model of online CSA disclosure (OCSAD), identifying four primary factors (safety, benefit, relevance, and legitimacy) that, weighed against cultural barriers, influence the decision to engage in online CSA disclosure. This context-informed understanding highlights the importance of social media as an alternative platform for CSA disclosure in an isolated but changing cultural arena such as the ultraorthodox community in Israel. The theoretical model is of international interest for its conceptualization of the unique characteristics and perceptions of OCSAD within religious-cultural contexts.
社交媒体网站如 Facebook 已成为普及的公众意识平台，通过鼓励用户围绕这个问题参与，从而促进对性虐待的公众意识。因此，目前正在出现关于社交媒体作为性虐待披露平台的功能和影响的研究。然而，到目前为止，还没有研究从宗教文化的角度专门探讨这一现象。本研究探讨了以色列极端正统犹太社会中宗教权威人物（RAFs）在线披露儿童性虐待（CSA）的看法、障碍和动机。这些数据来自一个非营利组织在流行的 Facebook 页面上收集，该组织致力于提高极端正统社区对 CSA 的认识。分析基于管理员的帖子、匿名和非匿名幸存者的分享、用户的评论，以及对八名页面用户的深入访谈。研究结果表明，存在一种以文化为导向的在线 CSA 披露模型（OCSAD），确定了四个主要因素（安全、收益、相关性和合法性），这些因素与文化障碍一起权衡，影响了在线 CSA 披露的决策。这种基于情境的理解突出了社交媒体作为孤立但正在变化的文化领域（如以色列的极端正统社区）中 CSA 披露的替代平台的重要性。该理论模型对于在宗教文化背景下对 OCSAD 的独特特征和看法的概念化具有国际意义。
