Author(s)

Jihoe Kim¹, Bonyoung Khu¹, Yang Lee^2*

¹Department of Education, Kangnam University, Yongin-si, Republic of Korea.
²Department of Psychology, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju-si, Republic of Korea.

Sexual violence imposes crisis on the front lines of social ethics deconstructed by Postmodernism. How much it is serious was alerted by social philosophers, and tested by the increase of sexual crimes in statistics. So, this study’s purpose was to analyze some variables related to causes and processes of sexual violence, and to recovery and prevention of damages. To support the analysis of the sexual violence, the victim’s profiles in behavioral, emotional, and cognitional characteristics were regarded as theorization. The study design constructed the 4 cases of sexual violence in conditions of high and low levels of violence, crossed by the acquainted and unacquainted offender, modeled by the real sexual crimes. A group of experts in describing sexual crime processes was requested to respond in 7 scales of rating to questions related to processes of sexual violence. This method is construed as a combination of phenomenological interpretation and experimental measures. As result, this study demonstrated much influence of the violence and acquaintance levels on varieties of the cognitional, emotional, and behavioral profiles, and on the variables related to processes of sexual violence. It was interesting that the cognitional character contributed to the inward attribution of violence, but the emotion and the behavior to the outward, if abstracted generally. It was attended that the authority’s punishment of offenders and the counselor’s activity for victims on recovery and prevention from damages were effective. This study suggested some strategies set up for counseling and prevention of sexual violence. Further, it is requested that the design of this study has to analyze the diversity of the violence simulations.

Ethics, Sexual Violence, Cognitional, Emotional, Behavioral, Phenomenological, Experimental

Kim, J. , Khu, B. and Lee, Y. (2022) The Victim’s Profiles of Behavioral, Emotional, and Cognitional Characteristics, Coping with Sexual Violence in Analysis by a Phenomenological-Experimental Method. Psychology, 13, 647-659. doi: 10.4236/psych.2022.135044.