@article{ref1,
title="The Impact of Sexual Victimization on Personality: A Longitudinal Study of Gendered Attributes",
journal="Sex roles",
year="2007",
author="McMullin, Darcy and Wirth, R. J. and White, Jacquelyn W.",
volume="56",
number="7-8",
pages="403-414",
abstract="Little is known about how sexual victimization may affect a woman’s self-reported personality ratings. In the present study endorsement ratings of gendered attributes, as measured by the Extended Personal Attributes Questionnaire, were examined over a 3-year span using multiple group latent growth modeling. Differences in the endorsement of gendered attributes between college female non-victims (N = 158) and victims (N = 158) of sexual aggression were tested. Whereas endorsement of communal and positive agentic attributes were stable across time, victims remained consistently less traditionally feminine (i.e., positively communal and nurturing) than non-victims. Victims also appeared to become relatively more self-focused (i.e., negative masculinity) across time than non-victims. This pattern suggests that sexual victimization may have lasting effects on victims’ ability to focus on the nurturing, trusting aspects of relationships; rather they have a preoccupation with their own needs and goals that appears to strengthen with time. Such a pattern sheds insight into how self-processes may contribute to the relationship difficulties often observed in sexual assault victims. Implications of these results for both personality and sexual aggression researchers are discussed.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0360-0025",
doi="10.1007/s11199-006-9179-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-006-9179-8"
}