Citation

Williams S, MacMillan HL, Jamieson E. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 2006; 76(1): 18-22.

Affiliation

Offord Centre for Child Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. swillia@mcmaster.ca

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

10.1037/0002-9432.76.1.18

PMID

16569122

Abstract

Community-based population survey data were used to explore whether remaining in school, independent of achievement status, was associated with lower rates of psychopathology in adulthood among participants self-reporting exposure to child physical and/or sexual abuse. Remaining in school, independent of one's achievement status, was significantly associated with a lower probability of experiencing externalizing but not internalizing disorders. Theoretical and educational implications of these results are discussed.

Language: en