Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent and has devastating consequences for college students. Online counseling (OC) may be a way to decrease barriers to help. This study seeks to determine openness to OC compared to face-to-face counseling (F2F) by examining: (1) How openness to OC varies depending on college students’ personal and IPV characteristics and (2) How these characteristics vary compared to college non-IPV survivors. Two linear regressions were conducted using a sample from a cross sectional survey. First with the entire sample of college students (N = 1,518) to examine characteristics of those more open to OC and second with only those that identified as experiencing IPV (n = 1,211). The results demonstrated that IPV survivors are less open to OC than to F2F counseling (b = -.23, p < .01). For the model with all college students, those who were significantly more open to OC were female (b = -.39, p < .001), identified as LGBT (b = .23, p < .05), or Asian/Pacific Islander (API) (b = .26, p < .05), and had a physical health issue (b = -.19, p < .05). For the model that only analyzed IPV survivors, the same characteristics were shown to be significantly related to openness to OC. More research is needed to explore why IPV survivors are less open to OC compared to F2F counseling. Exploring why characteristics of female, LGBT, and physical health issues lead to openness to OC could help understand what barriers need to be addressed for wider use.

亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 很普遍，对大学生造成毁灭性后果。在线咨询 (OC) 可能是减少帮助障碍的一种方式。本研究旨在通过检查确定对 OC 与面对面咨询 (F2F) 的开放程度：(1) 对 OC 的开放程度如何因大学生的个人和 IPV 特征而异，以及 (2) 这些特征与大学相比有何不同非 IPV 幸存者。使用来自横断面调查的样本进行了两个线性回归。首先使用整个大学生样本 ( N  = 1,518) 来检查那些对 OC 更开放的人的特征，其次仅使用那些被确定为正在经历 IPV 的人 ( n = 1,211）。结果表明，IPV 幸存者对 OC 的开放程度低于对 F2F 咨询的开放程度 ( b  = -.23, p  < .01)。对于所有大学生的模型，对 OC 明显更开放的是女性 ( b  = -.39, p  < .001)，确定为 LGBT ( b  = .23, p  < .05) 或亚洲/太平洋地区岛民 (API) ( b  = .26, p  < .05)，并且有身体健康问题 ( b  = -.19, p < .05)。对于仅分析 IPV 幸存者的模型，显示相同的特征与对 OC 的开放性显着相关。需要更多研究来探索与 F2F 咨询相比，IPV 幸存者为何对 OC 的开放程度较低。探索为什么女性、LGBT 和身体健康问题的特征导致对 OC 的开放性可以帮助理解需要解决哪些障碍才能更广泛地使用。