Citation

Kosterina E, Horne SG, Lamb S. J. Health Psychol. 2019; ePub(ePub): 1359105318825292.

Affiliation

University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105318825292

PMID

30696275

Abstract

This article explored the role of a lifetime history of gender-based violence, ambivalent sexism, and gynecological health worries in the development of reproductive and sexual symptoms among women in Kyrgyzstan. Non-pregnant women who were patients of gynecological clinics ( N = 143) participated in the study. A positive relationship between the experience of any type of violence (physical, sexual, and emotional) and number of gynecological symptoms was found. Hostile sexism was found to be a predictor of the number of reported symptoms. The number of gynecological health worries was found to fully mediate the relationship between history of gender-based violence and number of gynecological symptoms.

Language: en

Keywords

ambivalent sexism; gender-based violence; health anxiety; reproductive symptoms; women