Childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual assault, revictimization, and coping among sexual minority women.
Child Abuse Negl
; 151: 106721, 2024 May.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Compared with heterosexual women, sexual minority women experience higher rates and greater severity of sexual victimization. Little is known about how childhood sexual abuse (CSA), adult sexual assault (ASA), and revictimization impact coping in this population. Few studies have examined the effects of recency, developmental stage, and revictimization on coping.OBJECTIVE:
To improve psychosocial outcomes following sexual victimization, it is important to understand whether different patterns of exposure differentially impact coping over time. To do so, we investigated associations between CSA, ASA, and revictimization (both CSA and ASA) and adult sexual minority women's coping strategies. PARTICIPANTS ANDSETTING:
Data are from a longitudinal community-based sample of 513 sexual minority women of diverse ages and races/ethnicities.METHODS:
Participants reported CSA (RESULTS:
High-risk (i.e., genital penetration) CSA and recent ASA were associated with more avoidant coping (compared to no CSA or no ASA). No interaction between CSA and ASA was found, but history of both CSA and ASA had a stronger effect on avoidant coping than no victimization or CSA only.CONCLUSIONS:
Although sexual revictimization had a stronger impact on coping than CSA or ASA only, we did not find a synergistic effect (i.e., CSA and ASA may have had stacked independent effects). History of ASA was more strongly associated with coping than CSA. Recency of sexual victimization appears especially salient to coping among sexual minority women.Palabras clave
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Asunto principal:
Abuso Sexual Infantil
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Víctimas de Crimen
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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2024
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