The purpose of the current study was to explore the reactions of Native American adolescents to participating in survey research on sexual and dating violence. Participants were 149 Native American adolescents who completed a survey in school. Survey items included sexual assault, dating violence, sexual harassment, and demographic questions. At the end of the survey, participants were asked if they were upset by the survey. Results showed that almost a quarter of youth were upset by the survey (24.2%), victims were more likely than non-victims to be upset by the survey, perpetrators were more likely than non-perpetrators to be upset by the survey, and sexual minorities were more likely than non-sexual minorities to be upset by the survey. Sex and age did not emerge as significantly associated with being upset. Participants were asked to describe why they were upset, and a content analysis revealed four categories of responses (i.e., feeling awkward or weird, topic of the survey, reminders, and “other”). Overall, although the research was well tolerated by most of the participants, researchers should consider adding information about what might increase feelings of upset in parental consent and youth assent forms, such as being reminded of a past upsetting experience and/or feeling awkward or weird because of some of the questions.

本研究的目的是探讨美洲原住民青少年对参与性暴力和约会暴力调查研究的反应。参与者是在学校完成调查的 149 名美国原住民青少年。调查项目包括性侵犯、约会暴力、性骚扰和人口统计问题。在调查结束时，参与者被问及他们是否对调查感到不安。结果显示，近四分之一的青少年对调查感到不安（24.2%），受害者比非受害者更可能对调查感到不安，施暴者比非施暴者更可能对调查感到不安，性与非性少数群体相比，少数群体更可能对调查感到不安。性别和年龄与心烦意乱没有显着相关性。参与者被要求描述他们为什么不高兴，内容分析揭示了四类反应（即感觉尴尬或怪异、调查主题、提醒和“其他”）。总体而言，尽管大多数参与者对这项研究的耐受性良好，但研究人员应考虑在父母同意和青少年同意形式中添加可能增加不安情绪的信息，例如提醒过去的不安经历和/或感到尴尬或怪异因为一些问题。