Cinquegrana Vincenza, Marini Maddalena, Galdi Silvia
Department of Psychology, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy.
Center for Translational Neurophysiology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Ferrara, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 7;13:922814. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.922814. eCollection 2022.
Research on intimate partner violence (IPV) has recognized psychological abuse as a precursor of physical and sexual violence in intimate relationships. However, risk factors in predicting women's psychological abuse victimization in such a context are still unclear. The goal of the present work was to investigate the role of ambivalent sexism on psychological IPV victimization, by taking into account in the same study the effect of three additional social-psychological factors: women's (i) attitudes supportive of IPV, (ii) endorsement of legitimating myths of IPV, and (iii) acceptance of psychological aggression in intimate relationships. A total of 408 Italian young women ( = 23.87; SD = 2.39) involved in non-marital heterosexual romantic relationships completed measures aimed at assessing (i) hostile and benevolent sexism, (ii) attitudes supportive of IPV, (iii) legitimating myths of IPV, (iv) prevalence of psychological abuse experienced within the last 12 months, and performed a task developed to measure, and (v) acceptance of psychological aggression in intimate relationships. Results showed that the effect of ambivalent sexism on participants' prevalence of psychological abuse was mediated by the endorsement of attitudes supportive of IPV and legitimating myths of IPV, as well as by acceptance of psychological aggression. Findings are discussed based on literature about ambivalent sexism, and attitudes and beliefs about IPV.
对亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）的研究已将心理虐待视为亲密关系中身体暴力和性暴力的先兆。然而，在这种情况下预测女性心理虐待受害情况的风险因素仍不明确。本研究的目的是通过在同一研究中考虑另外三个社会心理因素的影响，来调查矛盾性别歧视对亲密伴侣心理暴力受害情况的作用：女性（i）对亲密伴侣暴力的支持态度，（ii）对亲密伴侣暴力正当化神话的认可，以及（iii）对亲密关系中心理攻击的接受程度。共有408名处于非婚姻异性恋浪漫关系中的意大利年轻女性（平均年龄=23.87岁；标准差=2.39岁）完成了旨在评估（i）敌意和善意性别歧视、（ii）对亲密伴侣暴力的支持态度、（iii）亲密伴侣暴力的正当化神话、（iv）过去12个月内经历的心理虐待发生率的测量，并完成了一项用于测量（v）对亲密关系中心理攻击接受程度的任务。结果表明，矛盾性别歧视对参与者心理虐待发生率的影响是通过对亲密伴侣暴力支持态度和正当化神话的认可，以及对心理攻击的接受程度来介导的。基于关于矛盾性别歧视以及对亲密伴侣暴力的态度和信念的文献对研究结果进行了讨论。
