title: Family background and sexual abuse associated with somatization.
abstract: To help clarify the complex association between negative childhood experiences and somatization, the authors examined the possible relationship between self-reported childhood sexual abuse, dysfunctional family background and several types of somatization in a nonclinical sample. Three anonymous questionnaires were completed by 202 female university students (average age 22 years). The findings confirm that severe or repeated childhood sexual victimization and a familial deficiency syndrome in childhood may be important in the pathogenesis of somatization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Innsbruck University Clinics, Austria.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Kinzl
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Traweger
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Biebl
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D012307:Risk Factors; D012803:Sick Role; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*