Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3624-9188
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-14-2011
DOI
10.1002/jts.20610
Abstract
To examine the effects of being revictimized, 555 women completed 2 mail surveys 1 year apart, reporting their experiences of sexual assault, the strategies they used to cope with those experiences, and feelings of depression. Path analyses, controlling for baseline coping and depression, revealed that those who were revictimized during the study reported using more maladaptive and adaptive coping strategies than did those who were not revictimized (β = .11 and β = .16, respectively). Further, women who were revictimized reported more depression than others (β = .15). This effect was explained in part by revictimized women's increased maladaptive coping. Results are consistent with other research showing that all of women's traumatic experiences must be taken into consideration to understand fully how sexual assault influences women's coping and recovery.
Recommended Citation
Najdowski, C. J., & Ullman, S. E. (2011). The effects of revictimization on coping and depression in female sexual assault victims. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 24, 218-221. DOI: 10.1002/jts.20610
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This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Najdowski, C. J., & Ullman, S. E. (2011). The effects of revictimization on coping and depression in female sexual assault victims. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 24, 218-221, which has been published in final form at 10.1002/jts.20610. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.