School of Health Sciences, Walden University, Minneapolis, MN.
J Child Sex Abus. 2023 Jan;32(1):22-39. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2022.2155599. Epub 2022 Dec 12.
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can result in devastating and long lasting consequences. Differences in the nature of the abuse differ for males and females and this difference potentially influences recovery. However, studies of recovery from CSA, especially among men, are relatively few, especially for ethnic minority men. The study explored the lived experience of recovery from CSA among African-Caribbean Black male survivors of CSA living in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The theoretical framework was the transactional model of stress and coping, which proposes that stress is an ongoing transaction between the demands of life and a person's psychological ability to address those demands. The study was qualitative in design, using an interpretive phenomenological approach, involving purposeful sampling, in-depth semi-structured interviews, and interpretive phenomenological analysis of the data informed by a critical race theory lens. The results showed that Black male survivors are situated in unique historical/sociocultural interrelationships that complicate recovery from CSA, including institutional racism and discrimination, restrictive narratives of masculinity, and other cultural norms. These findings can be used to influence policy makers, service providers, and communities, to more effectively support and address the needs of CSA survivors and their affected families.
儿童期性虐待 (CSA) 可能会导致毁灭性和持久的后果。男性和女性遭受虐待的性质存在差异，这种差异可能会影响康复。然而，关于 CSA 康复的研究，尤其是针对男性的研究相对较少，尤其是针对少数族裔男性的研究。本研究探讨了生活在加拿大、英国和美国的 CSA 非裔加勒比裔黑人男性幸存者从中恢复的亲身经历。理论框架是应激和应对的交互模型，该模型提出，应激是生活需求和个人应对这些需求的心理能力之间持续不断的相互作用。该研究采用定性设计，使用解释现象学方法，包括有目的的抽样、深入的半结构化访谈，以及通过批判种族理论视角对数据进行解释现象学分析。研究结果表明，黑人男性幸存者处于独特的历史/社会文化相互关系中，这些关系使 CSA 的康复变得复杂，包括制度种族主义和歧视、对男子气概的限制叙事以及其他文化规范。这些发现可用于影响政策制定者、服务提供者和社区，以更有效地支持和满足 CSA 幸存者及其受影响家庭的需求。
