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Tsui, Venus Siu Fung.

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Male victims of partner abuse: Barriers and facilitators to help-seeking.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Male victims of partner abuse: Barriers and facilitators to help-seeking./
Author:	Tsui, Venus Siu Fung.
Description:	259 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3748.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-10A.
Subject:	Health Sciences, Mental Health. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3424291
ISBN:	9781124232645

Male victims of partner abuse: Barriers and facilitators to help-seeking.
Tsui, Venus Siu Fung.

Male victims of partner abuse: Barriers and facilitators to help-seeking. - 259 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3748.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Houston, 2010.

Men in intimate partner abuse (IPA) experience more barriers than facilitators when looking for help because they are often portrayed as perpetrators. Due to low rate of help-seeking among IPA male victims, information about their service needs is scant. Focusing on IPA against men, a research framework has been developed to connect factors including Male Socialization, Social Construction, Social Psychology, and Social Isolation affecting male victims' help-seeking. This research purposes to identify factors that facilitate and hinder help-seeking for IPA male victims and explore their abuse experience and struggles in the help-seeking process.

ISBN: 9781124232645Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017693
Health Sciences, Mental Health.

Male victims of partner abuse: Barriers and facilitators to help-seeking.
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520 $a Men in intimate partner abuse (IPA) experience more barriers than facilitators when looking for help because they are often portrayed as perpetrators. Due to low rate of help-seeking among IPA male victims, information about their service needs is scant. Focusing on IPA against men, a research framework has been developed to connect factors including Male Socialization, Social Construction, Social Psychology, and Social Isolation affecting male victims' help-seeking. This research purposes to identify factors that facilitate and hinder help-seeking for IPA male victims and explore their abuse experience and struggles in the help-seeking process.
520 $a Using a mixed method approach, a national study via an online survey was conducted with 80 IPA male victims/survivors. Quantitative findings suggest that types of services and helpers, abuse experience, age, marital status, employment status, number of children, and men's tendency of minimizing problems predict the male victims' help-seeking. Interestingly, individuals who are older and not employed full time tend to utilize more services. Qualitative findings from 26 respondents found five contextual and three personal barriers to help-seeking. The contextual factors include lack of service availability and accessibility, low levels of helpfulness for social services and helpers, social stigma and isolation, distrust of law enforcement and legal system, and affordability of professional services. The personal barriers consist of shame and embarrassment, lack of knowledge and awareness of IPA, and fear. Recommendations from 49 respondents include: (1) increase awareness about IPA; (2) advocate gender-inclusive services; (3) review laws and policies; and (4) provide suggestions such as more funding resources and anonymity in service provisions.
520 $a Empirical evidence from this study suggests that male victims face many interpersonal and societal obstacles. Feeling uncomfortable requesting assistance, men in IPA situations are affected by a "masking factor" assuming men as being immune from domestic victimization and a "misconception factor" considering men as the sole perpetrators. Although men are eligible, the services are not available. To combat IPA, it is essential not only to address it as a public health issue, but also to change the Violence Against Women Act to become gender-neutral and advocate gender-inclusive and gender-sensitive approaches for practice and research.
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