@misc{10481/64363,
year = {2020},
month = {8},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/64363},
abstract = {Public helping reactions are essential to reduce a victim’s secondary victimization in intimate
partner violence against women (IPVAW) cases. Because gender-related characteristics have been
linked widely to IPVAWprevalence, the study aimed to examine individual attitudes and perceptions
toward di erent forms of violence against women, as well as gender-related macrosocial ideological
and structural factors, in explaining helping reactions to IPVAWacross 28 European countries. We
performed multilevel logistic regression analysis, taking measures from the Eurobarometer 2016
(N = 7115) and the European Institute for Gender Equality datasets. Our study revealed a greater
individual perceived IPVAW prevalence, positive perception about the appropriateness of a legal
response to psychological and sexual violence against women partners, and less VAW-supportive
attitudes predicted helping reactions (i.e., formal, informal), but not negative reactions to IPVAW.
Moreover, individuals from European countries with a greater perceived IPVAW prevalence and
gender equality preferred formal reactions to IPVAW. Otherwise, in the European countries with
lesser perceived IPVAW prevalence and negative perceptions about the appropriate legal response to
psychological and sexual violence, people were more likely to provide informal reactions to IPVAW.
Our results showed the role of gender-related characteristics influenced real reactions toward known
victim of IPVAW.},
organization = {FPU Program of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport 	
FPU16/03024},
organization = {PAI Research Group 624: Modeling and Measuring Human Behavior},
publisher = {Mdpi},
keywords = {Intimate partner violence against women},
keywords = {Helping reaction},
keywords = {Gender-related factors},
title = {Public Helping Reactions to Intimate Partner Violence against Women in European Countries: The Role of Gender-Related Individual and Macrosocial Factors},
doi = {10.3390/ijerph17176314},
author = {Serrano Montilla, Celia and Valor Segura, Inmaculada and Padilla García, José Luis and Lozano Fernández, Luis Manuel},
}