Parental caring as a possible buffer against sexual revictimization in young adult survivors of child sexual abuse

This study examined whether parental caring provided a buffer against the revictimization effect. Nine hundred and seventy‐four undergraduate women provided information about child sexual abuse, physical abuse, and whether they witnessed violence between their parents during childhood. They also rep...

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Published in:Journal of traumatic stress 2002-06, Vol.15 (3), p.235-244
Main Authors: Jankowski, M. Kay, Leitenberg, Harold, Henning, Kris, Coffey, Patricia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adult Children
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Abuse
Child Abuse, Sexual - psychology
Child Abuse, Sexual - statistics & numerical data
Child of Impaired Parents - psychology
child physical abuse
Child Sexual Abuse
Childhood Factors
childhood trauma
Crime Victims - psychology
Crime Victims - statistics & numerical data
Empathy
Family Violence
Female
Females
Humans
Logistic Models
Medical sciences
New England - epidemiology
Nurturance
Parent Child Relations
parental caring
Parents - education
Parents - psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Rape - prevention & control
Rape - psychology
Rape - statistics & numerical data
Recurrence
Risk Factors
Sexual Assault
sexual revictimization
Social Support
Socioeconomic Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Survivors - psychology
Survivors - statistics & numerical data
Undergraduate Students
Vermont
Victimization
Victimology
witnessing domestic violence
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Summary:This study examined whether parental caring provided a buffer against the revictimization effect. Nine hundred and seventy‐four undergraduate women provided information about child sexual abuse, physical abuse, and whether they witnessed violence between their parents during childhood. They also reported whether they had ever been the victim of sexual assault in adulthood, and offered their perceptions of the degree of care they received as a child from each parent. Results indicated that women who had been sexually abused in childhood were twice as likely to be sexually assaulted in adulthood and that women with 2 or more types of childhood trauma were 3 times as likely to be sexually revictimized. Parental caring was not found to buffer against the revictimization effect.
ISSN:0894-9867
1573-6598
DOI:10.1023/A:1015259412746