Sexual trauma, spirituality, and psychopathology.

Autor: Krejci MJ, Thompson KM, Simonich H, Crosby RD, Donaldson MA, Wonderlich SA, Mitchell JE
Zdroj: Journal of Child Sexual Abuse; 2004, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p85-103, 19p
Abstrakt: This study assessed the association between spirituality and psychopathology in a group of sexual abuse victims and controls with a focus on whether spirituality moderated the association between sexual trauma and psychopathology. Seventy-one sexual trauma victims were compared to 25 control subjects on spiritual well-being, the Eating Disorder Examination, the PTSD Symptom Scale, and the SCID-I/P. The data showed that the two groups did not differ in terms of spiritual well-being. Sexual trauma status was associated with most of the psychopathology outcomes, but its impact on psychopathology was largely unmoderated by spirituality. Among sexual trauma victims, the level of spiritual well-being did not alter the probability of current psychopathology. However, increased spiritual well-being was generally associated with lower psychopathology for the entire sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index