"It's Your Own Fault": Factors Influencing Victim Blaming.

ABSTRACT: This study examined the association between victimization and victim blaming using a sample of n = 142 participants in a generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) with the influence of subject gender, victim stereotyping level, threat level, and victim gender for victim blaming. Belief in a just world was included in the model as a covariate. Mediation analyses were conducted with the degree of identifiability with the victim and attitudes toward traditional role models as explanatory approaches. In addition, acceptance of rape myths was considered. The GLMM analyses suggest that victim blaming by male subjects was significantly higher on average than by female subjects when all other predictors were held constant. As an explanatory approach for these effects of the subjects' gender on

SUBMITTER: Witte LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11951459 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature