Citation

Pinciotti CM, Orcutt HK. Violence Against Women 2018; 24(5): 528-544.

Affiliation

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801217708885

PMID

29332512

Abstract

Self-defense training is consistently linked to psychological benefits for survivors of sexual trauma, yet little is known about how training may uniquely benefit survivors compared with their nonsurvivor peers enrolled in the same course. Path analysis was used to examine how history of sexual trauma impacts pre- and post-training scores on three domains of self-efficacy using a national sample of Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) participants. All participants reported significant increases in self-efficacy domains, and sexual trauma history significantly predicted pre-training interpersonal self-efficacy and post-training self-defense self-efficacy, suggesting that self-defense training confers benefits for survivors above and beyond benefits for other participants.

Language: en

Keywords

self-defense; self-efficacy; sexual trauma