The Contribution of Cognitive Strategies to the Resilience of Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Non-Abused Women.
This study examines the contribution of four strategies-self-forgiveness, realistic control, unrealistic control, and hope-to the resilience of 100 women survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), as compared with 84 non-sexually abused women. The findings show that CSA survivors exhibited lower resilience, lower self-forgiveness, lower hope, and higher levels of posttraumatic symptoms (PTS). They also indicate that resilience was explained by the participants' financial status, PTS severity, and two cognitive strategies-self-forgiveness and hope. Finally, PTS and hope mediated the relation between CSA and resilience.
1 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.|2 Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer, Israel.
Avital
A
Kaye-Tzadok
1 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Bilha
B
Davidson-Arad
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D000076783:Adverse Childhood Experiences; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D000071252:Mentoring / Q000379:methods; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*
childhood sexual abuse; cognitive strategies; hope; posttraumatic stress disorder; resilience