title: The relationship of child maltreatment and self-capacities with distress when telling one's story of childhood sexual abuse.
abstract: This study examined the impact of telling one's story of childhood sexual abuse and its relationship with the survivor's self-capacities and history of other child maltreatment. The baseline data were collected from 134 female CSA survivors who were participating in a large intervention study. Participants were given 10 minutes to describe their childhood sexual abuse and completed a post-interview questionnaire assessing post-traumatic stress symptoms and their emotional response. The distress in response to their narrative was both predicted and mediated by the survivors' self-capacities and other forms of child maltreatment beyond child sexual abuse.
authors.affiliation: University of Rochester Cancer Center, USA. Oxana_Palesh@urmc.rochester.edu
authors.forename: Oxana
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Palesh
authors.forename: Catherine C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Classen
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Field
authors.forename: Helena C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Kraemer
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Spiegel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D012650:Self Disclosure; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014342:Truth Disclosure; D016387:Women's Health