The Relationship between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adult Mental Health among Undergraduates: Victim Gender Doesn't Matter

Autor/inn/en	Young, M. Scott; Harford, Kelli-Lee; Kinder, Bill; Savell, Jodi K.
Titel	The Relationship between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adult Mental Health among Undergraduates: Victim Gender Doesn't Matter
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 22 (2007) 10, S.1315-1331 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260507304552
Schlagwörter	Interaction; Females; Sexual Abuse; Children; Mental Health; Undergraduate Students; Gender Differences; Measures (Individuals); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Antisocial Behavior; Psychosis; Brief Symptom Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interaktion; Weibliches Geschlecht; Sexueller Missbrauch; Child; Kind; Kinder; Psychohygiene; Geschlechterkonflikt; Messdaten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Psychose
Abstract	A large body of research has documented the harmful effects of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) on adult mental health among females, but less work has examined this issue among males. This study examined whether gender moderated the relationship between CSA and adult mental health among a mixed-gender sample of 406 undergraduates. A Pearson chi-square test indicated that a significantly greater proportion of females (41.6%) than males (30.7%) reported a history of CSA. ANCOVAs tested whether gender, CSA status, and their interaction were related to adult mental health symptomatology as measured by Brief Symptom Inventory gender-normed t scores. Participants with a history of CSA reported significantly higher levels of global mental health problems, hostility, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism. The gender by CSA status interaction was not significant for any scale, indicating that the harmful effects of CSA on adult mental health did not vary by gender. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10