Understanding Sexual Assault Survivors’ Perspectives on Archiving Qualitative Data: Implications for Feminist Approaches to Open Science

The open science movement has framed data sharing as necessary and achievable best practices for high-quality science. Feminist psychologists have complicated that narrative by questioning the purpose of data sharing across different paradigms, methodologies, and research populations. In these debat...

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Published in:Psychology of women quarterly Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 51 - 64
Main Authors: Campbell, Rebecca, Goodman-Williams, Rachael, Javorka, McKenzie, Engleton, Jasmine, Gregory, Katie
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.03.2023
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:
Action research
Archives & records
Assaults
Best practice
Criminal justice
Data
Data quality
Dissemination
Feminism
Feminist psychology
Help seeking behavior
Information sharing
Informed consent
Open access
Participatory action research
Participatory research
Psychology
Researchers
Sex crimes
Sexual violence
Sharing
Survivor
Victimization
Womens studies
open science
archiving
sexual assault
qualitative interviews
data sharing
ISSN:0361-6843, 1471-6402
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Summary:The open science movement has framed data sharing as necessary and achievable best practices for high-quality science. Feminist psychologists have complicated that narrative by questioning the purpose of data sharing across different paradigms, methodologies, and research populations. In these debates, the academic community has centered the needs and voices of researchers, and participants’ perspectives are largely missing from this literature. In this study, we sought to understand how research participants feel about sharing qualitative data on a sensitive subject—sexual victimization. As part of a participatory action research project, we conducted qualitative interviews with sexual assault survivors about their post-assault help-seeking experiences. The federal funding agency that supported this project requires researchers to archive de-identified data in a national data repository (the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data [NACJD]). All participants consented to archiving data, and the vast majority expressed positive views about data sharing because they wanted to help other survivors. Participants emphasized that our participatory action research approach and our stated goal of helping survivors were important considerations in their decisions regarding data sharing. Researchers should obtain informed consent from their participants for data sharing/archiving, and discuss their dissemination plans during the informed consent process.
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ISSN:0361-6843
1471-6402
DOI:10.1177/03616843221131546