Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) may be met with skeptical responses when they disclose their experience. The fear of such a response means that most victims delay telling anyone about the abuse. The aim of this study was to explore how contextual factors of abuse such as victim gender and age, perpetrator gender, and victim-perpetrator relationship affect a response to CSA. Further, we explored what personality traits may predict a skeptical response. An online questionnaire with 357 undergraduate students asked participants to read a vignette describing CSA, and to indicate the extent to which they believed the vignette, whether they blamed the victim or perpetrator, and what punishment they would recommend for the perpetrator. Results indicated that older victims were less likely to be believed and more likely to be blamed than younger victims. Further, we found more blame was placed on a perpetrator of intrafamilial abuse compared with extrafamilial abuse, but only if the perpetrator was male. Female perpetrators were punished less harshly than male perpetrators, but female intrafamilal perpetrators received harsher punishment than female extrafamilial perpetrators. No such effect was found for male perpetrators. Openness to Experience was associated with a more supportive response to CSA, as was Agreeableness. Implications and future directions are discussed.

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对儿童性虐待披露的怀疑反应的预测因素。

儿童性虐待 (CSA) 的受害者在披露他们的经历时可能会遭到质疑。对这种反应的恐惧意味着大多数受害者会延迟告诉任何人关于虐待的事情。本研究的目的是探讨诸如受害者性别和年龄、施暴者性别和施暴者关系等虐待的背景因素如何影响对 CSA 的反应。此外，我们探讨了哪些人格特征可以预测怀疑的反应。一项针对 357 名本科生的在线问卷要求参与者阅读描述 CSA 的小插曲，并指出他们相信小插曲的程度、他们是责怪受害者还是肇事者，以及他们会建议对肇事者采取何种惩罚措施。结果表明，与年轻的受害者相比，年长的受害者不太可能被相信并且更容易受到指责。此外，我们发现与家庭外虐待相比，家庭内虐待的肇事者受到的责任更多，但前提是肇事者是男性。女性施暴者受到的惩罚比男性施暴者轻，但女性家庭内施暴者受到的惩罚比女性家庭外施暴者更严厉。男性施暴者没有发现这种影响。对体验的开放性与对 CSA 的更支持性反应有关，宜人性也是如此。讨论了影响和未来的方向。女性施暴者受到的惩罚比男性施暴者轻，但女性家庭内施暴者受到的惩罚比女性家庭外施暴者更严厉。男性施暴者没有发现这种影响。对体验的开放性与对 CSA 的更支持性反应有关，宜人性也是如此。讨论了影响和未来的方向。女性施暴者受到的惩罚比男性施暴者轻，但女性家庭内施暴者受到的惩罚比女性家庭外施暴者更严厉。男性施暴者没有发现这种影响。对体验的开放性与对 CSA 的更支持性反应有关，宜人性也是如此。讨论了影响和未来的方向。