Social reactions to disclosure of interpersonal violence and psychopathology: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Public attention has been increasingly paid to how friends, family members, and others can best support survivors of sexual assault and other forms of violence. The broader social support literature posits that perceiving social support positively is more important to mental health than the degree to which social support is actually received, and that negative interactions with social supporters are more harmful than positive interactions are helpful (potentially because negative reactions violate survivors' expectations of their social supporters). This may be especially true after a crisis, such as interpersonal violence. Thus, this systematic review and meta-analysis summarizes the literature on social reactions to interpersonal violence. Meta-regression analyses were performed on 1871

SUBMITTER: Dworkin ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716998 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature