Barriers to Men’s Help Seeking for Intimate Partner Violence

Evidence suggests that male victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) are less likely to seek help for their victimization than female victims. Studies exploring barriers to help seeking are relatively scarce in the United Kingdom (UK) and those that have been undertaken across Europe, United State...

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Published in:Journal of interpersonal violence Vol. 37; no. 19-20; pp. NP18417 - NP18444
Main Authors: Taylor, Julie C., Bates, Elizabeth A., Colosi, Attilio, Creer, Andrew J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.10.2022
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:
Barriers
Credibility
Crime Victims
Domestic violence
Family Violence
Female
Health status
Help Seeking
Help seeking behavior
Helping behavior
Humans
Intimate Partner Violence
Male
Males
Men
Original
Policy making
Questionnaires
Social media
Social networks
Stigma
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States
Victimization
Victims
Victims of crime
Violence
Well being
United States
United Kingdom > UK
perceptions of domestic violence
domestic violence
cultural contexts
disclosure of domestic violence
legal intervention
ISSN:0886-2605, 1552-6518, 1552-6518
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Summary:Evidence suggests that male victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) are less likely to seek help for their victimization than female victims. Studies exploring barriers to help seeking are relatively scarce in the United Kingdom (UK) and those that have been undertaken across Europe, United States, Canada, and Australia have tended to rely on small samples of help-seeking men who have self-identified as victims of IPV. With a view to include more male victim voices in the literature, an anonymous qualitative questionnaire was distributed via social media. In total, 147 men (85% from the UK) who self-identified as being subject to abuse from their female partners, completed the questionnaire. The data was subjected to a deductive thematic analysis and one superordinate and two overarching themes were identified. The superordinate theme was stigmatized gender and the two overarching themes (subthemes in parentheses) were barriers prohibiting help seeking (status and credibility, health and well-being) and responses to initial help seeking (discreditation, exclusion/isolation, and helpfulness). The findings are discussed in the context of Overstreet and Quinn’s (2013) interpersonal violence and stigma model and findings from previous research. The conclusions and recommendations promote education and training and advocate a radical change to policy.
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ISSN:0886-2605
1552-6518
1552-6518
DOI:10.1177/08862605211035870