@article{ref1,
title="Sexual assault and sexual risk behaviors among lower-income rural women: the mediating role of self-worth",
journal="Violence and victims",
year="2017",
author="Dodd, Julia and Littleton, Heather",
volume="32",
number="1",
pages="110-125",
abstract="Sexual victimization is associated with risky sexual behaviors. Limited research has examined mechanisms via which victimization affects risk behaviors, particularly following different types of sexual victimization. This study examined self-worth as a mediator of the relationship between sexual victimization history: contact childhood sexual abuse (CSA), completed rape in adolescence/adulthood (adolescent/adulthood sexual assault [ASA]), and combined CSA/ASA, and two sexual risk behaviors: past year partners and one-time encounters. Participants were diverse (57.9% African American), low-income women recruited from an OB-GYN waiting room (n = 646). Women with a history of sexual victimization, 29.8% (n = 186) reported lower self-worth, t(586) = 5.26, p <.001, and more partners, t(612) = 2.45, p <.01, than nonvictims. Self-worth was a significant mediator only among women with combined CSA/ASA histories in both risk behavior models.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-6708",
doi="10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-15-00119",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-15-00119"
}