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Hazardous Drinking, Minority Stress, and Sexual Revictimization among Bisexual Women: A prospective, moderated-mediation study

McConnell, Amy A
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1786-7538
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595247839308777

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Psychology.
The purpose of the current study was to investigate mechanisms of sexual revictimization among bisexual women, who are at greatly increased risk for sexual revictimization compared to monosexual women (Drabble et al., 2013; Hequembourg et al., 2013; Hughes et al., 2010). Initial explorations of sexual revictimization among bisexual women have shown that sexual revictimization and hazardous drinking are related, and hazardous drinking may mediate sexual revictimization, especially in the presence of minority stressors (Drabble et al., 2013; Hequembourg et al., 2013; Hughes et al., 2010; McConnell & Messman-Moore, 2019). However, the cross-sectional design of these studies limits confidence in their findings. The current study recruited 390 self-identified bisexual women (Mage = 31.71; 86.9% White) to complete a series of surveys assessing experiences of sexual victimization, indicators of hazardous drinking, and facets of bisexual minority stress at baseline and five months later. Results indicated a significant indirect effect of baseline victimization status on follow-up alcohol-involved sexual victimization, but not forcible sexual victimization, via hazardous drinking. This effect was not conditioned upon experiences of minority stress at baseline. Findings suggest that addressing hazardous patterns of drinking in sexual assault risk reduction programs, as well as in individual therapy with survivors of sexual assault, may contribute to lowered risk of alcohol-involved revictimization. Although minority stress was not significantly related to revictimization, results provided important information on the measurement of minority stress that may inform future research in this area.
Terri Messman-Moore, PhD (Committee Chair)
Elise Clerkin, PhD (Committee Member)
Aaron Luebbe, PhD (Committee Member)
Katherine Kuvalanka, PhD (Committee Member)
67 p.
Clinical Psychology; Psychology

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  • McConnell, A. A. (2020). Hazardous Drinking, Minority Stress, and Sexual Revictimization among Bisexual Women: A prospective, moderated-mediation study [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595247839308777

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McConnell, Amy. Hazardous Drinking, Minority Stress, and Sexual Revictimization among Bisexual Women: A prospective, moderated-mediation study. 2020. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595247839308777.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McConnell, Amy. "Hazardous Drinking, Minority Stress, and Sexual Revictimization among Bisexual Women: A prospective, moderated-mediation study." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595247839308777

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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