Accuracy of adult recollections of childhood victimization: Part 2. Childhood sexual abuse

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 34-46

  Widom, Cathy Spatz ^a   Morris, Suzanne ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEGLECT; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL ABUSE;

EID: 0043143136     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.9.1.34     Document Type: Article

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