Citation

Briere J, Runtz MG. Child Abuse Negl. 1988; 12(1): 51-59.

Affiliation

University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3365583

Abstract

The current study examined the incidence and long-term effects of sexual abuse in a nonclinical sample of adult women. Approximately 15% of 278 university women reported having had sexual contact with a significantly older person before age 15. On a modified version of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist, these women reported higher levels of dissociation, somatization, anxiety, and depression than did nonabused women. Abuse-related symptomatology was positively associated with the age of the abuser, the total number of abusers, use of force during victimization, parental incest, completed intercourse, and extended duration of time.

Language: en