Lifetime Sexual Victimization and Poor Risk Perception: Does Emotion Dysregulation Account for the Links?

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 3054-3071

  Walsh, Kate ^a   DiLillo, David ^a   Messman Moore, Terri L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion dysregulation; sexual abuse; sexual risk recognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROL; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS; STUDENT; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGGRESSION; CRIME VICTIMS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; RAPE; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL PARTNERS; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866983123     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260512441081     Document Type: Article

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