Citation

Murthi M, Servaty-Seib HL, Elliott AN. J. Interpers. Violence 2006; 21(8): 982-999.

Affiliation

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260506290288

PMID

16829663

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between child sexual abuse (CSA) and self-concept in a nonclinical sample of female college students. Participants with a history of CSA had lower scores than participants without a history of CSA on four domains of self-concept: familial, affect, competence, and physical. History of CSA was not associated with lower self-concept in the social and academic domains. The primary conclusions to be drawn from this study are that CSA may be differentially associated with various domains of self-concept, and thus multidimensional assessment of self-concept can yield useful information that cannot be gathered from global measures which yield a single composite score.

Language: en