Abstract：
Theoretical frameworks suggest that how victims of violence against women (VAW) label their experiences and selves shapes their help-seeking intentions and behaviors. Quantitative studies assessing this relationship have focused on sexual assault and have neglected self-labels, thus this study adds to the research by including multiple forms of VAW and both experience-labels (e.g., \"abuse\") and self-labels (e.g., \"victim\"). Data came from a community-based sample of 1,284 adult, female victims of physical intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking. These women participated in a state-wide phone survey in 2020 to determine victimization prevalence and were selected for the present analyses based on their victimization experiences. Bivariate analyses and multivariate logistic regression models were used to determine whether experience- and self-labels predicted the likelihood of perceiving the need for legal services, victim services, shelter or safe housing, and/or medical care, as well as talking to police. Both applying a label to one\'s experiences with VAW and applying a label to oneself in relation to those experiences approximately doubled the odds of perceiving a need for formal services. The significance of self-labels seemed to be driven by the \"survivor\" label, as using a \"victim\" label was not related to need perceptions, but a \"survivor\" label doubled or tripled the odds of perceiving a need for formal services. Applying a label to one\'s experiences with VAW almost doubled the odds of talking to the police, and, again, use of the \"survivor\" self-label significantly increased the odds of talking to the police. These findings confirm the importance of labeling one\'s victimization experiences and self, and indicate that greater attention be paid to the labels that victims use and how the use of labels might be improved so that they are more likely to seek and attain meaningful help and services.
摘要：
理论框架表明，暴力侵害妇女行为（VAW）的受害者如何标记他们的经历和自我塑造他们寻求帮助的意图和行为。评估这种关系的定量研究集中在性侵犯上，而忽略了自我标签，因此，这项研究通过包括多种形式的VAW和两个经验标签(例如，\“滥用\”)和自我标签(例如，\“受害者\”）。数据来自1,284名成年人的社区样本，身体亲密伴侣暴力的女性受害者，性侵犯,和/或跟踪。这些妇女参加了2020年全州范围的电话调查，以确定受害患病率，并根据她们的受害经历被选中进行本分析。使用双变量分析和多变量逻辑回归模型来确定经验和自我标签是否预测了感知法律服务需求的可能性，受害者服务,庇护所或安全住房，和/或医疗护理，以及与警察交谈。两者都将标签应用于一个人的VAW经历，并将标签应用于与这些经历相关的自己，使感知到对正式服务的需求的几率增加了一倍。自我标签的重要性似乎是由“幸存者”标签驱动的，因为使用“受害者”标签与需求感知无关，但是“幸存者”标签使人们认为需要正式服务的可能性增加了一倍或两倍。将标签贴在VAW的经历上，与警察交谈的几率几乎翻了一番，and,再次，使用“幸存者”自我标签显着增加了与警察交谈的可能性。这些发现证实了标记一个人的受害经历和自我的重要性，并指出应更加关注受害者使用的标签，以及如何改进标签的使用，以便他们更有可能寻求和获得有意义的帮助和服务。
