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The relationship of childhood sexual abuse with later psychological and sexual adjustment in a sample of college women

Mary Ellen Fromuth
- 01 Jan 1986 - 
- Vol. 10, Iss: 1, pp 5-15
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A number of small, but significant, relationships were found between a history of childhood sexual abuse and measures of later psychological and sexual adjustment and the significant correlations to involve the sexual measures rather than the more general adjustment measures.
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This article is published in Child Abuse & Neglect.The article was published on 1986-01-01. It has received 454 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sexual abuse & Psychological abuse.

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A Global Perspective on Child Sexual Abuse: Meta-Analysis of Prevalence Around the World:

TL;DR: The results of the meta-analysis confirm that CSA is a global problem of considerable extent, but also show that methodological issues drastically influence the self-reported prevalence of CSA.
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A review of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse

TL;DR: There is insufficient evidence to confirm a relation between a history of childhood sexual abuse and a postsexual abuse syndrome and multiple or borderline personality disorder, but force and threat of force may be a necessary concomitant.
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Prevalence and psychological sequelae of self-reported childhood physical and sexual abuse in a general population sample of men and women

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the prevalence and psychological sequelae of childhood sexual and physical abuse in adults from the general population and found that sexual abuse predicted more symptom variance than did physical abuse or adult interpersonal victimization.
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The long-term impact of the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of children: a community study.

TL;DR: The associations between giving a history of physical, emotional and sexual abuse in children and a range of mental health, interpersonal, and sexual problems in adult life were examined in a community sample of women as mentioned in this paper.

Content Notes Appendix References: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the belief that child sexual abuse causes intense harm, regardless of gender, pervasively in the general population by reviewing 59 studies based on college samples and found that students with CSA were, on average, slightly less well adjusted than controls.
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