Deciding Whom to Tell: Expectations and Outcomes of Rape Survivors' First Disclosures

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Sexual Violence Is #NotOkay: Social Reactions to Disclosures of Sexual Victimization on Twitter (2019, background): “Further, because not all survivors of sexual violence disclose for the purpose of help seeking (Ahrens et al., 2007), additional research is therefore needed to document how individuals respond to online disclosure of sexual victimization outside of a help seeking context.”
An Ecological Model of the Impact of Sexual Assault On Women's Mental Health (2009, background): “It may be that negative social reactions are more salient for survivors’ recovery because survivors are more likely to first disclose to family and friends (Ahrens et al., 2007; Filipas & Ullman, 2001; Starzynski, Ullman, Filipas, & Townsend. 2005), and they likely expect sympathetic reactions from ”
Healing or Hurtful: Sexual Assault Survivors' Interpretations of Social Reactions from Support Providers (2009, background): “…relatively high rates of disclosure to friends, family, and counselors and relatively low rates of disclosure to romantic partners, physicians, and police personnel (Ahrens et al., 2007; Campbell et al., 2001; Filipas & Ullman, 2001; Fisher et al., 2003; Golding et al., 1989; Ullman, 1996, 1999).”