Abstract

ABSTRACT Psychological abuse is highly prevalent and results in serious consequences for survivors, including depression and anxiety. The majority of research on psychological abuse focuses on cisgender survivors despite research suggesting transgender women are more likely to experience intimate partner violence (IPV) than cisgender women. The purpose of this study was to examine whether an IPV survivor’s gender identity would impact the perceptions of a psychologically abusive dating scenario. The study presented hypothetical scenarios involving either a cisgender or transgender survivor to participants in a between-subjects experiment (n = 115) and examined perceptions of the perpetrator, survivor, and conflict. Overall, participants did not perceive the abuse to be as negative or the conflict as serious when the survivor was transgender, despite the abuse being the same in the presented scenarios. Also, the survivor was perceived less positively when she was transgender. These results demonstrate that people hold different views of an abusive conflict when the survivor is transgender. More research is needed to further examine perceptions of transgender individuals in an abuse context as they also experience unique forms of psychological abuse and this may impact the likelihood that transgender survivors of IPV will receive support and resources.

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