The relationship between childhood sexual abuse and adult mental health among undergraduates: Victim gender doesn't matter

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1315-1331

  Young, M Scott ^a,b   Harford, Kelli Lee ^a   Kinder, Bill ^a   Savell, Jodi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brief Symptom Inventory; Child sexual abuse; Gender; Mental health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; STUDENT; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; CAUSALITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 34548354753     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260507304552     Document Type: Article

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