ERIC Number: EJ841195
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
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The Relationship of Child Maltreatment and Self-Capacities with Distress when Telling One's Story of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Palesh, Oxana Gronskaya; Classen, Catherine C.; Field, Nigel; Kraemer, Helena C.; Spiegel, David
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, v16 n4 p63-80 2007
This study examined the impact of telling one's story of childhood sexual abuse and its relationship with the survivor's self-capacities and history of other child maltreatment. The baseline data were collected from 134 female CSA survivors who were participating in a large intervention study. Participants were given 10 minutes to describe their childhood sexual abuse and completed a post-interview questionnaire assessing post-traumatic stress symptoms and their emotional response. The distress in response to their narrative was both predicted and mediated by the survivors' self-capacities and other forms of child maltreatment beyond child sexual abuse. (Contains 5 tables and 1 note.)
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Emotional Response, Correlation, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Females, Intervention, Questionnaires, Interviews, Stress Variables, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Personal Narratives, Educational Attainment, Employment Level, Family Income, Ethnicity, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Self Concept, Psychological Patterns
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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