Interpersonal Dependency Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Therapy
| Autor: | Robert F. Bornstein, Steven N. Gold, E. L. Hill |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
Child abuse
medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Dysfunctional family Interpersonal communication Mental health Pathology and Forensic Medicine Clinical Practice Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Sexual abuse Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Personality Psychiatry Psychology media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. 9:71-86 |
| ISSN: | 1547-0679 1053-8712 |
| Popis: | This study investigated dependency in survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). The Interpersonal Dependency Inventory (IDI) was administered at intake to 24 men and 85 women seen in therapy at a university-based community mental health clinic. In contrast to findings from earlier studies, no significant gender differences were obtained for IDI whole-scale or subscale scores. Analyses comparing CSA IDI scores with the IDI scores of previously studied groups indicated that among women, CSA survivors obtained higher dependency scores than non-CSA psychiatric patients, community adults, and college students. Findings for men were less consistent. Follow-up analyses revealed that commonly investigated CSA characteristics were unrelated to survivors' dependency scores. Implications of these findings for future research and clinical practice are explored. |
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