@article{ref1,
title="Spirituality and the Current Adjustment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse",
journal="Journal for the scientific study of religion",
year="2007",
author="Gall, Terry Lynn and Basque, Viola and Damasceno‐scott, Marizete and Vardy, Gerard",
volume="46",
number="1",
pages="101-117",
abstract="We explore the role of spirituality in the current adjustment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). A sample of 101 men and women survivors of CSA completed questionnaires on spirituality (relationship with God or higher power), person factors (blame attributions, self-acceptance, hope), and current adjustment (mood, personal growth, resolution of the abuse). Results indicated that relationship with a benevolent God or higher power is related to the experience of less negative mood and a greater sense of personal growth and resolution of the abuse. Also, relationship with a higher power is related to other person factors such as self-acceptance and hope. Relationship with a benevolent God appears to have an indirect link to depressive mood and resolution of abuse through the mediating pathways of hope and self-acceptance. In contrast, relationship with God appears to have a more direct association to the outcome of personal growth for these survivors.<p />",
language="",
issn="0021-8294",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-5906.2007.00343.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2007.00343.x"
}