@article{ref1,
title="Abuse-specific self-schemas and self-functioning: A prospective study of sexually abused youth",
journal="Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology",
year="2010",
author="Feiring, Candice and Cleland, Charles M. and Simon, Valerie A.",
volume="39",
number="1",
pages="35-50",
abstract="Potential pathways from childhood sexual abuse (CSA) to negative self-schemas to subsequent dissociative symptoms and low global self-esteem were examined in a prospective longitudinal study of 160 ethnically diverse youth with confirmed CSA histories. Participants were interviewed at the time of abuse discovery, when they were 8 to 15 years of age, and again 1 and 6 years later. Abuse-specific indicators of stigmatization, in particular the combination of shame and self-blame more than general self-blame attributions for everyday events, explained which youth with CSA histories experienced more dissociative symptoms and clinically significant levels of dissociation. Abuse-specific stigmatization was found to operate as a prospective mechanism for subsequent dissociative symptoms but not self-esteem.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1537-4416",
doi="10.1080/15374410903401112",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15374410903401112"
}