Citation

Fox KM, Gilbert BO. Child Abuse Negl. 1994; 18(10): 849-858.

Affiliation

Southern Illinois University-Carbondale 62901.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7804892

Abstract

Questionnaires assessing childhood physical abuse (CPA), childhood incest (CI), and parental alcoholism (ACOA) were completed by 253 college women from introductory psychology classes at a large midwestern university. The relationship between these variables and the level of depression, self-esteem and involvement with physically abusive, sexually assaultive, sexually coercive, and chemically dependent partners was assessed. Support was found for an additive model of trauma that predicted a relationship between number of childhood traumas and adult outcomes. Limited support was found for a specificity model of trauma that predicted that specific childhood trauma would be predictive of parallel negative adult outcomes.

Language: en