Citation

Talbot JA, Talbot NL, Tu X. J. Trauma. Stress 2004; 17(5): 445-448.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA. Jean_Talbot@URMC.Rochester.Edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1023/B:JOTS.0000048959.29766.ae

PMID

15633925

Abstract

This study examined whether shame-proneness is associated with dissociation among abused women. Participants were 99 hospitalized women with and without reported histories of childhood sexual abuse. Hypotheses were that childhood sexual abuse and shame-proneness would each be associated with dissociation, and that the relationship between sexual abuse and dissociation would be greater among women with higher shame-proneness. Multiple regression analysis indicated that shame-proneness was independently related to dissociation, but childhood sexual abuse was not. As predicted, the combination of shame-proneness and childhood sexual abuse was associated with dissociation.

Language: en