7938University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
12239Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2023 Jan;38(1-2):NP1279-NP1298. doi: 10.1177/08862605221090561. Epub 2022 Apr 20.
Although many African American IPV survivors need services, they often do not access care. Hopelessness may partially explain low rates in help-seeking for this population and serve as a significant barrier to care for African American IPV survivors particularly those who have had prior legal system involvement. In a sample of 185 African American women, we first examined whether hopelessness mediated the relation between IPV and barriers to services. If such a mediation effect was found, we then would explore whether legal system involvement moderated the mediated effect of hopelessness on the relation between IPV and barriers to services. As anticipated, hopelessness partially served to explain (i.e., mediated) the relation between IPV and barriers to services. Further, this mediated effect was moderated by legal system involvement such that when legal system involvement was included as a moderator, hopelessness mediated the association between IPV and barriers to services for those survivors who had been involved with the legal system. These results underscore the critical role of hopelessness as a barrier to accessing services for African American IPV survivors, especially those with prior involvement with the legal system. Recommendations are offered that underscore the importance of interventions that empower African American women who have survived violence instead of penalizing them.
尽管许多非裔美国受暴者需要服务，但他们往往无法获得帮助。绝望可能部分解释了这一人群寻求帮助的低比率，并成为非裔美国受暴者获得护理的重大障碍，尤其是那些曾有过法律系统介入的人。在一项针对 185 名非裔美国女性的样本中，我们首先检验了绝望是否在受暴与服务障碍之间的关系中起中介作用。如果发现了这种中介效应，我们将进一步探讨法律系统介入是否调节了绝望对受暴与服务障碍之间关系的中介效应。正如预期的那样，绝望在一定程度上解释了（即中介了）受暴与服务障碍之间的关系。此外，这种中介效应受到法律系统介入的调节，即当法律系统介入被作为一个调节变量时，对于那些曾与法律系统有关的幸存者，绝望在受暴与服务障碍之间的关联中起中介作用。这些结果强调了绝望作为非裔美国受暴者获得服务的障碍的关键作用，尤其是那些曾有过法律系统介入的人。本研究提出了一些建议，强调了为经历过暴力的非裔美国女性提供赋权干预的重要性，而不是对她们进行惩罚。
