Skip to main content

LUP Student Papers

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Relations and Narrations: Communication Biases in Intimate Partner Violence

Miörner, Anna LU and Weiger, Amanda LU (2020) PSPR14 20201
Department of Psychology
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate communication bias (Calibration, Accuracy, Gender and Self-Serving Bias) when rating the severity of three types of violence (psychological, physical, sexual) communicated by three types of participants (victims, perpetrators, witnesses) in heterosexual, romantic relationships. The study was conducted in two stages. The first phase consisted of participants contributing nine narratives about self-experienced intimate partner violence, one per condition, and rating the violence’s severity. The second phase consisted of new participants reading nine randomised narratives, one per condition, and rating the violence’s severity. The results suggested a strong Calibration Bias, i.e. the tendency for... (More)
The aim of this study was to investigate communication bias (Calibration, Accuracy, Gender and Self-Serving Bias) when rating the severity of three types of violence (psychological, physical, sexual) communicated by three types of participants (victims, perpetrators, witnesses) in heterosexual, romantic relationships. The study was conducted in two stages. The first phase consisted of participants contributing nine narratives about self-experienced intimate partner violence, one per condition, and rating the violence’s severity. The second phase consisted of new participants reading nine randomised narratives, one per condition, and rating the violence’s severity. The results suggested a strong Calibration Bias, i.e. the tendency for third-party raters to rate the violence more severely than the narrators. Self-Serving Bias was disconfirmed, although further research is needed. The results also showed an Accuracy Bias, i.e. a difficulty to predict third-party ratings from narrator ratings. Further, the results showed a Gender Bias regarding genders of both victims and raters: the violence in the narrations with female victims was rated more severely and male raters (unlike the study’s hypothesis) consistently rated the violence more severely than female raters. However, when controlling each type of violence respectively, Gender Bias was only found regarding the effects on physical violence. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
Miörner, Anna LU and Weiger, Amanda LU
supervisor
organization
course
PSPR14 20201
year
type
H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
subject
keywords
intimate partner violence, domestic violence, physical violence, psychological violence, sexual violence, victim, perpetrator, witness, gender, severity of violence, communication bias
language
English
id
9012625
date added to LUP
2020-06-08 09:46:08
date last changed
2020-06-08 09:46:08
@misc{9012625,
  abstract     = {{The aim of this study was to investigate communication bias (Calibration, Accuracy, Gender and Self-Serving Bias) when rating the severity of three types of violence (psychological, physical, sexual) communicated by three types of participants (victims, perpetrators, witnesses) in heterosexual, romantic relationships. The study was conducted in two stages. The first phase consisted of participants contributing nine narratives about self-experienced intimate partner violence, one per condition, and rating the violence’s severity. The second phase consisted of new participants reading nine randomised narratives, one per condition, and rating the violence’s severity. The results suggested a strong Calibration Bias, i.e. the tendency for third-party raters to rate the violence more severely than the narrators. Self-Serving Bias was disconfirmed, although further research is needed. The results also showed an Accuracy Bias, i.e. a difficulty to predict third-party ratings from narrator ratings. Further, the results showed a Gender Bias regarding genders of both victims and raters: the violence in the narrations with female victims was rated more severely and male raters (unlike the study’s hypothesis) consistently rated the violence more severely than female raters. However, when controlling each type of violence respectively, Gender Bias was only found regarding the effects on physical violence.}},
  author       = {{Miörner, Anna and Weiger, Amanda}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Relations and Narrations: Communication Biases in Intimate Partner Violence}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}