TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - The role of shame and attributional style in children's and adolescents' adaptation to sexual abuse
JO  - Child maltreatment
A1  - Feiring, Candice
A1  - Taska, Lynn
A1  - Lewis, Michael
SP  - 129
EP  - 142
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
N2  - This study examined the role of shame and a self-blaming attributional style as factors that can help explain the level of psychological distress in child and adolescent victims of sexual abuse. A total of 142 participants (82 children, 60 adolescents) were seen within 8 weeks of discovery of the abuse. Regression analyses were used to examine how age at discovery, gender, abuse characteristics, shame, and attribution were related to depression, self-esteem, and traumatic events sequelae. As expected, shame and self-blaming attributions were strongly related to depression, self-esteem, and traumatic events sequelae and accounted for significant variance even after age, gender, and abuse characteristics had been controlled. The relations between number of abusive events and depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and eroticism were mediated by shame and attributional style.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 1077-5595
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077559598003002007
ID  - ref1
ER  -