PTSD Symptoms Among College Students: Linkages with Familial Risk, Borderline Personality, and Sexual Assault.
J Child Sex Abus
; 33(2): 127-145, 2024 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-38456682
ABSTRACT
College students have high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms as well as high rates of sexual assault. What is less clear, however, is whether different sexual assault types (e.g. coercive, physically forced, and incapacitation) are associated with greater PTSD symptoms. Moreover, understanding early familial and mental health histories of college students is important for explaining PTSD symptoms. As such, we use a social stress framework to examine the relationships between early familial risk (i.e. child abuse, perceived maternal rejection), borderline personality (BP) symptoms, and three sexual assault types with PTSD symptoms among college students. A total of 783 undergraduate students (65.4% female) completed paper and pencil surveys in fall 2019 and spring 2020 at a large public university. Results revealed that females were more likely to experience child sexual abuse and all three forms of sexual assault, while males experienced higher rates of child physical abuse. OLS regression results showed positive associations between child sexual abuse, perceived maternal rejection, BP symptoms and all three types of sexual assault with PTSD symptoms. Females also experienced more PTSD symptoms compared to males. Findings have implications for targeted interventions to improve mental health outcomes.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Delitos Sexuales
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Trastornos por Estrés Postraumático
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Abuso Sexual Infantil
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Víctimas de Crimen
Límite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Child Sex Abus
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J. child sex. abuse
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Journal of child sexual abuse
Asunto de la revista:
CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
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PSIQUIATRIA
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos