The Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Incestuous Victimization upon Adult Women's Psychological Symptomatology
| Autor: | Kevin Ford, Shelly Marmion, Paula K. Lundberg-Love, Lana Peacock, Robert Geffner |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject medicine.disease Pathology and Forensic Medicine Substance abuse Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Eating disorders Feeling Sexual abuse Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Anxiety Dissociative disorders medicine.symptom Psychological abuse Psychiatry Psychology media_common Clinical psychology Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. 1:81-102 |
| ISSN: | 1547-0679 1053-8712 |
| DOI: | 10.1300/j070v01n01_06 |
| Popis: | Current estimates of the prevalence of incest suggest that 16-20% of the women in the United States may be victims of such sexual abuse by the age of 18. The long-term consequences of incestuous victimization appear lo be numerous, producing in its victims feelings of powerlessness, stigmatization, and betrayal many years after the abuse. Some of the diagnostic consequences of childhood sexual abuse include affective disorders, substance abuse, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder. and sexual dvsfunction. Therefore. the vumse of the present study was to comp&e adult women who were'viciims of childhood incest to various control groups to determine whether there were differences in psychological symptomatology. The results of this study suggest that the long-term consequences of incest are numerous and varied. Adult incest survivors reported greater levels of psychological distress as well as more types of symptomatology when compared to all three contr... |
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