This study was conducted to explore the autobiographical self of emerging adult women with non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI). The subjects of the study were 10 women aged 19 to 23 with experiences of NSSI within the last month. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect the qualitative data. As a result of analyzing the interview data by the method of phenomenological qualitative research, their past self experiences included ‘the abandoned and shriveled self’, ‘the rejected and stand-alone self’, and ‘the sick and weak self’. Their present self experiences included ‘the empty self’, ‘the shameful and unacceptable self’, ‘the hidden self’, and ‘the self manifesting via the bodily pain’. Future self included ‘the clear self which wants to grow up and help somebody’, ‘the hazy and blurred self’, and ‘the self which wants to stay in pain’. The meanings of NSSI in the context of the self included ‘NSSI as the physical confirmation of the suffered self’, ‘NSSI as the relief of the pain of the mind and body by confirming the self’, and ‘NSSI as the damage to the self’. The study explored the autobiographical self of the emerging adult women with NSSI through their language and discovered the NSSI as physical confirmation of the suffered self.
This study aimed to investigate the effects of narcissism and gender on perceptions of sexual violence. Participants consisted of 133 undergraduate students who read one of two scenarios in which sexual violence did or did not occur in a dating situation and answered five questions related to perceptions of sexual violence: sincerity of woman’s refusal, woman’s unpleasantness, woman’s sexual satisfaction, violence of man’s behavior, and masculinity of man’s behavior. The results showed significant two-way interactions between participant gender and sexual violence (present vs. absent) and between narcissism and sexual violence in most cases. Specifically, men and individuals high in narcissism were more tolerant of sexual violence compared to women and those low in narcissism, respectively. This study contributes to the literature in that it replicated the effect of gender on perceptions of sexual violence using the everyday context of dating sexual assault. More importantly, this study demonstrated that narcissism is related to tolerant perceptions of sexual assault.
Recently, social problems related to dating violence have been increasing day by day. It is necessary to find clues to solve this problem by deeply exploring the experience of dating violence in early adult males, who are considered perpetrators of dating violence. For this purpose, interviews were conducted with 6 early adult males who experienced dating violence. The collected data were analyzed through Phenomenology method. As a result, early adult male’s dating violence experience were categorized into 38 sub categories and 10 essential categories. The early adult male’s dating violence experience "I'm the victim of obsession," "Endless conflict relationship problem," "Love with poor romantic relationship satisfaction," "Injury and shame that touched a man's pride," "Uncontrollable anger and impulses," and "the injustice of the offense". These results were discussed in comparative analysis with previous studies and limitations were also presented.
Although cyber stalking has become one of the most serious social issues, there are a few studies on factors related to judgment of cyber stalking. We investigated factors affecting judgment of cyber stalking such as offender-victim relationship and gender. We also explored whether judgment of seriousness of cyber stalking, offender/victim responsibility, and offender/victim blame were affected by interpersonal competence and relational aggression, which is known to be related to interpersonal problem and conflict, and interaction skills. Based on a sample of 160 people (80 males, 80 females) in their twenties to fifties, the study showed that the seriousness of cyber stalking which occurred between strangers than ex-lovers was evaluated more highly, the offender was blamed more, and the responsibility of the victim for the cyber stalking was evaluated lower. The lower the relational aggression, the higher the seriousness of cyber stalking was evaluated, and the more highly blamed the offender. The effect of gender on judgment of cyber stalking was mediated by the level of relational aggression. Women than men were more likely to have a high level of relational aggression, which in turn led to lower judgment of the seriousness of cyber stalking and offender blame. Based on the results, we discussed criminal justice policy implications on cyber stalking victim and limitations of this study.
The purpose of this study is to suggest a theory with which the early development process of multi-cultural counselors can be explained. Therefore, in-depth interviews with 7 counselors currently working at an organization related with the multi-culture are conducted. For the data analysis, the grounded theory method suggested by Strauss and Corbin (1998) is used among qualitative research methods. The question of this study is ‘what do multi-cultural counselors experience in the early developments and what features do they have?’ From the analysis with grounded theory, 108 concepts, 46 sub-categories and 19 categories are drawn. The paradigm model was constructed to understand the relationship between categories, and through axial coding and selective coding, the experiences of multi-cultural counselors in the early development stage were examined. This study suggests that more flexible counseling approach rather than traditional one is effective for clients from multi-culture. It has in implication in that it provides basic data for indicating the orientation for enhancing professionalism in the early development process most of multi-cultural counselors are experiencing in Korea.