Childhood Sexual Abuse, Stigmatization, Internalizing Symptoms, and the Development of Sexual Difficulties and Dating Aggression

Autor/inn/en	Feiring, Candice; Simon, Valerie A.; Cleland, Charles M.
Titel	Childhood Sexual Abuse, Stigmatization, Internalizing Symptoms, and the Development of Sexual Difficulties and Dating Aggression
Quelle	In: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77 (2009) 1, S.127-137 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-006X
DOI	10.1037/a0013475
Schlagwörter	Sexual Abuse; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Intimacy; Children; Depression (Psychology); Child Abuse; Social Bias; Social Attitudes; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Dating (Social); Aggression; Antisocial Behavior; Correlation; Longitudinal Studies; Interviews; Predictor Variables; New Jersey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Intimität; Child; Kind; Kinder; Abuse of children; Abuse; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Korrelation; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Prädiktor
Abstract	Potential pathways from childhood sexual abuse (CSA) to subsequent romantic intimacy problems were examined in a prospective longitudinal study of 160 ethnically diverse youth with confirmed CSA histories. Participants were interviewed at the time of abuse discovery, when they were 8-15 years of age, and again 1-6 years later. Stigmatization (abuse-specific shame and self-blame) and internalizing symptoms (posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms), more than abuse severity, explained which youth with CSA histories experienced more sexual difficulties and dating aggression. Stigmatization was found to operate as a predictive mechanism for subsequent sexual difficulties. Internalizing symptoms were not predictive of romantic intimacy problems, although they did show correlational relations with sexual difficulties and dating aggression. Early interventions such as trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy that target stigmatization may be important for preventing the development of sexual difficulties in CSA youth. (Contains 2 figures, 2 tables and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10