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Telling adults about it: children’s experience of disclosing interpersonal violence in community sport.

Woessner, M. N., Pankowiak, A., Kavanagh, E., Parent, S., Vertommen, T., Eime, R., Spaaij, R., Harvey, J. and Parker, A. G., 2024. Telling adults about it: children’s experience of disclosing interpersonal violence in community sport. Sport in Society, 27 (5), 661-680.

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DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2268555

Abstract

A challenge in safeguarding children from interpersonal violence (IV) in sport is the reliance on self-disclosures and a limited understanding of the frequency, barriers to and process of disclosures of IV. Through a mixed-methods design, combining survey and interviews, we explored the frequencies of childhood disclosures of experiences of IV in Australian community sport as well as who children disclosed to and how the interaction unfolded. Those who experienced peer violence disclosed at the highest frequency (35%), followed by coach (27%) or parent (13%) perpetrated IV. A parent/carer was most often the adult that the child disclosed to. Interviews highlighted how the normalisation of violence influenced all aspects of the disclosure and elements of stress buffering (normalising or rationalising) particularly underpinned the disclosure interaction. Policies and practices should explicitly identify all forms of IV in sport as prohibited conduct; education and intervention initiatives should target parents as first responders to disclosures.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1461-0981
Uncontrolled Keywords:Disclosure of abuse; interpersonal violence; sport; safeguarding; child abuse; violence in sport; disclosure
Group:Bournemouth University Business School
ID Code:39071
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:02 Nov 2023 09:34
Last Modified:05 Jun 2024 10:50

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