Childhood sexual abuse and multiple dimensions of self-concept.
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between child sexual abuse (CSA) and self-concept in a nonclinical sample of female college students. Participants with a history of CSA had lower scores than participants without a history of CSA on four domains of self-concept: familial, affect, competence, and physical. History of CSA was not associated with lower self-concept in the social and academic domains. The primary conclusions to be drawn from this study are that CSA may be differentially associated with various domains of self-concept, and thus multidimensional assessment of self-concept can yield useful information that cannot be gathered from global measures which yield a single composite score.
Murthi
Meera
M
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Servaty-Seib
Heather L
HL
Elliott
Ann N
AN
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment; D015144:Southeastern United States; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D016387:Women's Health