Citation

Coffey P, Leitenberg H, Henning K, Turner T, Bennett RT. J. Consult. Clin. Psychol. 1996; 64(5): 1090-1093.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8916641

Abstract

With a community sample of 192 women who had been sexually abused during childhood, the investigators determined if methods of coping in adulthood with the aftermath of child sexual abuse were associated with current symptoms of psychological distress. Multiple regression analyses indicated that disengagement methods of coping with the sexual abuse accounted for unique variance in general psychological distress even after controlling for characteristics of the abuse and methods of coping with other stressors. Disengagement methods of coping were also used more often to deal with the stressful aspects of having been sexually abused than to deal with other stressful events. In contrast, engagement methods of coping were used more often to deal with the other stressors than with sexual abuse.

Language: en