Stigma and incest survivors.
The impact of incestuous child sexual abuse continues to affect victims into their adult lives. Survey responses from college students indicate the predicted stigma surrounding this childhood event varies with gender as well as with length and type of relationship at the time of the disclosure. Women indicate differences in stigma when anticipating various types of relationships with male survivors. Particularly, women show dating as less comfortable than opposite sex friendship, and parenting as less comfortable than marriage. Men do not indicate these differences in stigma based on the type of relationship, but instead predict comfort with female survivors based on the length of relationship.
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Department of Sociology, Rend Lake College, Ina, IL 62846.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest / Q000523:psychology*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D012752:Shame; D012934:Social Isolation