@article{ref1,
title="Relative effects of sexual assault and other traumatic life events on self-harm",
journal="European journal of trauma and dissociation",
year="2022",
author="Watters, Kayleigh N. and Yalch, Matthew M.",
volume="6",
number="1",
pages="e100244-e100244",
abstract="Introduction Sexual assault is a common traumatic stressor that is associated with a number of mental health difficulties among men and women who experience it. Perhaps the most severe of these difficulties are self-harm, a term which encompasses suicidal impulses and behaviors and non-suicidal self-injury. Self-harm is common among those with a history of traumatic experiences, perhaps because it represents a way to escape memories of and emotions related to these experiences. This may particularly be the case for the trauma of sexual assault, on which there is a growing body of research. Although this research suggests a strong association between sexual assault and self-harm, it is less clear whether sexual assault is more strongly associated with self-harm than are other traumatic experiences.  Objective/Method In this study, we examined the relative effects of sexual assault since the age of fourteen and other traumatic experiences on self-harm in a sample of men and women recruited on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (N = 390) using a Bayesian approach to multiple regression.  Results Results suggest that sexual assault has a large positive effect on self-harm over and above other traumatic experiences.  Conclusion These results highlight the especially pernicious influence of sexual assault and suggest the need to assess self-harm among those with a sexual assault history.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2468-7499",
doi="10.1016/j.ejtd.2021.100244",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2021.100244"
}