@article{ref1,
title="Sexual assault survivors' post-traumatic growth: individual and community-level differences",
journal="Violence against women",
year="2019",
author="Kirkner, Anne and Ullman, Sarah E.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Past research has focused on individual differences in post-traumatic growth (PTG) among survivors, but no studies to date have examined differences at the neighborhood level. This exploratory study uses data from a 3-year longitudinal study of women sexual assault survivors (<i>N</i> = 1,863) living in a segregated city. We tested random intercept models of individuals nested within neighborhoods. Disrupted core beliefs, greater perceived control over recovery, less post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), religious coping, and positive social coping predicted more PTG. White survivors had lower PTG scores than the women of color in this study. Neighborhood-level differences in PTG scores persisted even though violent crime rate and neighborhood poverty did not emerge as significant in our model.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-8012",
doi="10.1177/1077801219888019",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801219888019"
}