Interdisciplinary scholarship in violence and trauma studies suggest that a person’s interpretation of stressful events contours how the person will respond. It is through the two-part appraisal process that survivors determine how they will cope. This project utilizes an identity-based approach to demonstrate that survivors use group-based ideologies such as social class, geography, gender, sexuality, and, for some, race to appraise their accounts of violence, assess their coping strategies, and manage traumatic events. Using the cross-cultural accounts of 146 Black Ghanaian, South African, and Rwandan women rape survivors, the findings extend the appraisal approach by highlighting how survivors in this study utilized sexual morality tales to construct a variety of appraisal accounts to interpret their assaults and to justify their coping strategies. I call these appraisals opportunities, possibilities, limitations, and solidarities. These differing appraisals demonstrated that social milieu contours the psychological experience of violence and can engender both parallel and divergent interpretations across social class and cultural contexts. Last, the implications of these findings for comparative sexual assault studies, theories of traumatic coping, gender and development, and intersectionality are discussed.

暴力和创伤研究的跨学科学术研究表明，一个人对压力事件的解释勾勒出该人将如何应对。幸存者通过两部分的评估过程来确定他们将如何应对。该项目采用基于身份的方法来证明幸存者使用基于群体的意识形态，例如社会阶层，地理，性别，性取向，并且在某些情况下，竞赛是评估他们的暴力行为，评估其应对策略并管理创伤事件。利用146名加纳黑人，南非裔和卢旺达妇女对强奸幸存者的跨文化影响，这些发现通过强调本研究中的幸存者如何利用性道德故事来构建各种评估方式来解释其攻击并证明其应对策略，从而扩展了评估方法。我称这些评估为机会，可能性，局限性和团结。这些不同的评估表明，社会环境勾勒了暴力的心理经历，并可能在社会阶层和文化背景下引发平行和分歧的解释。最后，讨论了这些发现对比较性攻击研究，创伤应对理论，性别与发育理论以及交叉性的意义。这些不同的评估表明，社会环境勾勒了暴力的心理经历，并可能在社会阶层和文化背景下引发平行和分歧的解释。最后，讨论了这些发现对比较性攻击研究，创伤应对理论，性别与发育理论以及交叉性的意义。这些不同的评价表明，社会环境勾勒了暴力的心理经历，并可能在社会阶层和文化背景下产生平行和分歧的解释。最后，讨论了这些发现对比较性攻击研究，创伤应对理论，性别与发育理论以及交叉性的意义。