@article{ref1,
title="Perceptions of same-gender and different-gender intimate partner cyber-monitoring",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2018",
author="Messinger, Adam M. and Birmingham, Rachel S. and DeKeseredy, Walter S.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="886260518787814-886260518787814",
abstract="There is a paucity of research comparing perceptions of technology-facilitated partner monitoring or stalking between same-gender and different-gender relationships. As such, a randomized vignette study was conducted with 738 undergraduate students at a large Midwestern university, who read one of four stories of intimate partner cyber-monitoring (IPCM): same-gender IPCM with physical violence, same-gender IPCM without physical violence, different-gender IPCM with physical violence, and different-gender IPCM without physical violence. <br><br>RESULTS show that participants were significantly less likely to recommend the survivor break up with the abuser if the story described a same-gender relationship. If the story involved IPCM alone rather than also physical violence, participants were significantly less likely to label the abuse as &quot;domestic violence,&quot; more likely to recommend doing nothing, and less likely to recommend most of the assessed protective actions-including being less likely to recommend asking the survivor to break up with the abuser, seeking help from friends and family, calling a domestic violence hotline, or calling the police. <br><br>RESULTS also indicate that IPCM is largely perceived to be less serious and less deserving of survivor support than physical intimate partner violence (IPV), for both same-gender and different-gender relationships. Implications for prevention education programming as well as research are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260518787814",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260518787814"
}