Sciacca, Beatrice, Mazzone, Angela ORCID: 0000-0002-5858-8033, O'Higgins Norman, James ORCID: 0000-0003-0997-6942 and Foody, Mairéad ORCID: 0000-0003-0026-0294 (2021) Blame and responsibility in the context of youth produced sexual imagery: the role of teacher empathy and rape myth acceptance. Teaching and Teacher Education, 103 . ISSN 0742-051X
Abstract
This study examined Pre-Service Teachers’ (PSTs; N ¼ 92; 75% women, 25% men) tendency to blame
students or to feel responsibility when confronted with different vignettes of the sharing of youth
produced sexual images. Self-report measures of empathy and rape myth acceptance were collected.
Findings showed that PSTs felt more responsible for girl targets depending on the vignette type.
Moreover, they blamed the target more in the attention seeking vignette compared to other vignette
types. Finally, PSTs who tended to blame the target showed lower levels of empathic concern and higher
levels of rape myth acceptance. Implications for teaching education are discussed
Metadata
Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Additional Information: | Article number: 103354 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sexting; Preservice teachers; Empathy; Attribution of blame; Teacher responsibility; Rape myth acceptance |
Subjects: | Social Sciences > Education Social Sciences > Social psychology Social Sciences > Teaching |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Institutes and Centres > Anti-Bullying Research Centre (ABC) |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Official URL: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103354 |
Copyright Information: | © 2021 The Authors. |
Funders: | Irish Research Council and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 713279 |
ID Code: | 25972 |
Deposited On: | 04 Jun 2021 16:38 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 24 Jan 2024 17:50 |
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