A model of vulnerability for adult sexual victimization: The impact of attachment, child maltreatment, and scarred sexuality

Violence and Victims

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 485-501

  Reid, Joan A ^a   Sullivan, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Revictimization; Sexual abuse; Shame; Traumatic sexualization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MODEL; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; POWERLESSNESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIGMA; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SURVIVOR; VICTIM;

EID: 67749124166     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.24.4.485     Document Type: Article

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