Mediators of the long-term impact of child sexual abuse: Perceived stigma, betrayal, powerlessness, and self-blame☆
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2020, Children and Youth Services ReviewCitation Excerpt :Specifically, these were the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (1995b; Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995a); Impact of Events Scale – Revised (Weiss, 2007); Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC; Briere, 1996); Experiences of Shame Scale (Andrews, Qian, & Valentine, 2002); Abuse Attribution Inventory (Feiring, Taska, & Chen, 2002); Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965); and Event-related Rumination Inventory – Deliberative subscale (Cann et al., 2011). In addition, key items or sub-scales were taken from the following measures (these were not used in their entirety due to length but chosen items aimed to tap into key constructs): Abuse related shame - four items as used by Feiring et al. (2002); Abuse-related stigma, powerlessness and betrayal (3 items - Coffey, Leitenberg, Henning, Turner, & Bennett, 1996); Objectified Body Consciousness Scale – Surveillance subscale (McKinley & Hyde, 1996); and six items of the Adolescent Coping Scale each relating to a different form of coping (Frydenberg & Lewis, 1993). The use of reduced items arose partly through consultation with providers and ethical processes, in order to minimise the time taken and questions asked.
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2020, Children and Youth Services ReviewCitation Excerpt :This is consistent with research showing that victims of CSA have lower self-esteem compared to controls (Stern, Lynch, Oates, O’Toole, & Cooney, 1995; Turner et al., 2010). Feelings of shame and self-blame affect core beliefs of self-worth resulting in the long-term negative impact of CSA (Coffey et al., 1996), and shame is connected to stigmatization processes in CSA (Feiring, Taska, & Lewis, 2002; Whiffen & Macintosh, 2005; Turner et al., 2010). Thus, clenched in shame, self-blame, and lack of protection, how can you tell?
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This study was supported in part by a grant from the Child and Adolescent Research Foundation.