Psychological consequences of sexual victimization resulting from force, incapacitation, or verbal coercion

Violence Against Women

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 898-919

  Brown, Amy L ^a   Testa, Maria ^b   Messman Moore, Terri L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Posttraumatic stress; Rape; Sexual victimization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMICS; VICTIM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

COERCION; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RAPE; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 68949167798     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801209335491     Document Type: Article

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