Psychometric Characteristics of the Social Reactions Questionnaire: A Measure of Reactions to Sexual Assault Victims
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Negative social reactions are common responses to disclosures of sexual assault. A study was undertaken to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of a new measure of social reactions to sexual assault victims, the Social Reactions Questionnaire (SRQ). Good reliability and validity were demonstrated for the measure in three samples of sexual assault victims: community volunteers, college students, and victims contacting mental health agencies. The SRQ provides a much needed measure of both the positive forms of social support and several negative social reactions received by sexual assault victims disclosing their assaults to a range of informal social network members and formal support providers.
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Dworkin et al. (2019) found that received positive reactions to trauma disclosure were associated with more psychopathology cross-sectionally with a very small effect (r = 0.06), but were not associated with psychopathology longitudinally (r = 0.00).
“Similarly, Dworkin et al. (2019) found that received positive reactions to trauma disclosure, such as those measured by the Social Reactions Questionnaire (Ullman, 2000), were associated with more psychopathology cross-sectionally with a very small effect (r = 0.06), but were not associated with psychopathology longitudinally (r = 0.00).”
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- Authors
- Ullman, S. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ullman, Sarah E.
- ORCID
- Ullman, Sarah E.
- Venue
- Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2000-09
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 257-271
- ISSN
- 0361-6843 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6402
- OpenAlex
- W2025490606
- Cited by
- 330
- References
- 4
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- FWCI
- 7.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychology of Women Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- sexual assault survivors, social reactions, social support, disclosure of sexual assault, psychometric validation, reliability statistics, validity, informal social networks, university students, community volunteers
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