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Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Incestuous Victimization Upon Adulthood Psychological Symptomatology

NCJ Number
133812
Journal
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Dated: (1992) Pages: 89-109
Author(s)
P K Lundberg-Love; S Marmion; K Ford; R Geffner; L Peacock
Date Published
1991
Length
21 pages
Annotation
Adult women who were victims of childhood incest (n = 31) were compared to psychological treatment controls (n = 29), exercise controls (n = 32), and no treatment controls to determine any differences in psychological symptomatology.
Abstract
Study findings support the hypothesis that adult women who are incestuously abused as children report greater psychological distress and higher levels of symptomatology than women in treatment who report no history of sexual abuse or women not in psychological treatment. Adult incest survivors reported greater levels of psychological distress and more types of symptomatology when compared to all three control groups. Overall, the incest survivors were significantly more depressed, alienated, inhibited, socially introverted, and interpersonally more sensitive than the other groups. 37 references