@article{ref1,
title=""All of me is completely different": experiences and consequences among victims of  technology-assisted child sexual abuse",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2020",
author="Joleby, Malin and Lunde, Carolina and Landström, Sara and Jonsson, Linda S.",
volume="11",
number="",
pages="e606218-e606218",
abstract="The aim of the present study was to gain a first-person perspective on the  experiences of technology-assisted child sexual abuse (TA-CSA), and a deeper  understanding of the way it may affect its victims. Seven young women (aged 17-24)  with experience of TA-CSA before the age of 18 participated in individual in-depth  interviews. The interviews were teller-focused with the aim of capturing the  interviewee's own story about how they made sense of their experiences over time,  and what impact the victimization had on them in the short and long terms. Thematic  analysis of the interviews revealed a broad range of abusive experiences that had  profoundly impacted the individuals' lives, health and self-concepts. Three dominant  themes emerged from the analysis - From thrilling to abusive, Negative effect on  health and wellbeing, and A new self after the abuse. From thrilling to abusive  captures the wide range of experiences described, starting from the child's own  sexual curiosity to descriptions of having been manipulated or threatened into  engaging in sexual activity, as well as the sometimes long and complex process of  understanding the severity of one's experiences. Negative effect on health and  wellbeing describes the victimization's comprehensive impact on the life and health  of the participants, how they blamed themselves for what had happened, and the  struggle of having to live with the constant fear of pictures from the abuse  resurfacing. A new self after the abuse depicts how the victimization impacted the  way participants viewed and thought about themselves in relation to others, and  distorted their views of their bodies. The findings are discussed in relation to  previous research on both offline CSA and TA-CSA, as well as theoretical and  practical implications.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606218",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606218"
}