TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Sexual assault and sexual risk behaviors among lower-income rural women: the mediating role of self-worth
JO  - Violence and victims
A1  - Dodd, Julia
A1  - Littleton, Heather
SP  - 110
EP  - 125
VL  - 32
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-6708
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-15-00119
ID  - ref1
ER  -