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Pathways to Adult Sexual Revictimization: Direct and Indirect Behavioral Risk Factors across the Lifespan

FARGO, JAMISON DUNN
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1210636112

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2008, MS, University of Cincinnati, Medicine : Epidemiology (Environmental Health).
The purpose of this study was to investigate direct and indirect (or mediating) social and behavioral risk factors for adult sexual revictimization. Participants included 147 adult, predominantly African-American (88%) women, 59% of whom had a documented history of child sexual abuse. Participants were interviewed in adulthood about adolescent and adult sexual victimization, as well as other background and lifestyle characteristics. Structural equation modeling indicated that the relationship between child and adolescent sexual victimization was indirect, mediated by adolescent risk taking behavior. The relationship between adolescent and adult sexual victimization was also indirect, mediated by risky sexual behavior. The residual effects of early childhood family environment and childhood physical abuse also indirectly predicted sexual revictimization. Results provide empirical support for the general supposition that the relationship between child and adult sexual victimization is complex and that many intermediary factors differentially affect risk for a heightened vulnerability to sexual revictimization.
Paul Succop, PhD (Committee Chair)
Kim Dietrich, PhD (Committee Member)
48 p.
Revictimization; Sexual Assault; Adult Victims; Adolescent Victims; Risk Factors; Mediation

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  • FARGO, J. D. (2008). Pathways to Adult Sexual Revictimization: Direct and Indirect Behavioral Risk Factors across the Lifespan [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1210636112

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • FARGO, JAMISON. Pathways to Adult Sexual Revictimization: Direct and Indirect Behavioral Risk Factors across the Lifespan. 2008. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1210636112.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • FARGO, JAMISON. "Pathways to Adult Sexual Revictimization: Direct and Indirect Behavioral Risk Factors across the Lifespan." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1210636112

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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