| Summary: | 碩士 === 慈濟大學 === 社會工作研究所 === 89 === Multiple social factors, including social myths regarding rape, social construction of sexual knowledge and inflexible role image, construct sexual assault experience. These social construction factors influence victim’s daily life. They also interact with each other. From a systemic viewpoint, victim is not in solitude; Chinese family ideology, family, social institutions and social cultures also constitute the victim’s life surroundings. Consequently, family members, ideology of social institutions and social cultures has become the main forces underling victim’s socialization. It is found that under the multiple influences and pressures of the systemic construction, victim’s sexual assault experience has its unique characteristics as well as share same social constructed experience with other victims. The major findings are as follows: First, sexual assault experience has become the major victim’s daily life experience. Sexual assault is a violent crime, which downgrades dignity and deprives victims of human right. After the incident, victim can only live under the nightmare of posttraumatic emotions, which offers only loss of value and provides no future in sight. This sense of loss contributes to victim’s distrust of and dissatisfaction with human natures, love, parents’ care and justice. Second, family is the source of support as well as pressure. Family should be the place that comforts. However, after the incident the family has gone through changes. Different family members also experienced different emotional changes. The victim could no long understand what is left in the family: support or pressure? The victim could only escape from her/his family. Then he/she can find the breathing space and enjoy the different comfort provided by different family members. Third, cultivating the myth of rape. Myth of rape is the main factor contributing to the fact that victims are being hurt by the supporting system again. The omnipresence of the myth produces more victims through the process of internalization, proliferation of the myth. Consequently, under the systemic conscious as well as unconscious discrimination, victims are once hurt by the supporting system.
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