Trauma exposure and sexual revictimization risk: comparisons across single, multiple incident, and multiple perpetrator victimizations.
Although research demonstrates a link between child sexual abuse and sexual revictimization in adolescence or adulthood, less is known about specific mechanisms that increase women's vulnerability to reassault. This study examined experiential and outcome differences between survivors of a single assault, survivors of ongoing abuse by a single perpetrator, and survivors of multiple assaults by different offenders. Multiply victimized women differed from survivors of a single assault or of ongoing abuse on psychological distress, health, and nonsexual trauma variables. Revictimization by new perpetrators was predicted by an earlier age during a first sexual assault and by nonsexual trauma in childhood.
Casey
Erin A
EA
University of Washington School of Social Work. ercasey@u.washington.edu
Nurius
Paula S
PS
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014861:Washington / Q000453:epidemiology; D016387:Women's Health; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000592:standards