Objectives

Publicly revealing prior victimization could produce negative reactions and could affect a self-identified victim’s initiation of romantic relationships.

Methods

To measure victim stigma, an experimental audit design used six study profiles, each with pictures of a Black, Latinx, or White cisgender female or cis-male and bio text that in the experimental condition included a briefstatement of prior victimization, to compare match rates of profiles disclosing prior victimization with identical profiles not disclosing victimization.

Results

Disclosing victimization reduced total matches for all profiles regardless of sex or race. Racial congruence analyses of matches indicated that relative to the White control profile, all other study profiles were more likely to match with dating app users of a different race/ethnicity, except for the White male victim profile.

Conclusions

The stigma of the victim label may discourage people from disclosing their prior victimization. Racial congruence findings suggests that victim stigma may differ across different racial and ethnic groups.

中文翻译：

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与“受害者”约会：通过对约会应用程序的实验性审核来测试受害者标签的污名

目标

公开披露先前的受害可能会产生负面反应，并可能影响自我认同的受害者开始恋爱关系。

方法

为了衡量受害者的耻辱感，一项实验性审计设计使用了六个研究档案，每个档案都有黑人、拉丁裔或白人顺性别女性或顺男性的照片和生物文本，在实验条件下包括先前受害的简短陈述，以比较匹配率披露先前受害的档案与未披露受害的相同档案的比例。

结果

披露受害情况会减少所有个人资料的总匹配数，无论性别或种族如何。匹配的种族一致性分析表明，相对于白人控制概况，所有其他研究概况更有可能与不同种族/民族的约会应用程序用户匹配，除了白人男性受害者概况。

结论

受害者标签的污名可能会阻止人们披露他们之前的受害经历。种族一致性调查结果表明，不同种族和族裔群体的受害者污名可能不同。