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Title: | Posttraumatic growth, depreciation, and psychopathology following sexual victimization: a unified model of predictors |
Authors: | Leung, Tiffany |
Keywords: | Sexual victimization;Sexual violence;Psychopathology |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Abstract: | Sexual violence is amongst the most detrimental events a woman can experience, with survivors suffering long-term consequences to their mental health and perception of self. However, accumulating research shows trauma can also act as a catalyst for positive change. To gain a fully comprehensive understanding of sexual victimization, a simultaneous examination of positive and negative change is needed, as is an exploration of the cognitive and social experiences that differentiate post-trauma presentations. Method: Female undergraduate students (N = 358) completed standardized measures assessing positive and negative change following trauma (i.e., posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic depreciation, respectively); psychopathology (PTSD, anxiety, depression); world beliefs (thoughts of the world and other people); cognitive processing styles (rumination types); and social experiences (disclosure reactions and content). A series of regressions was used to identify the significant predictors of the three post-trauma outcomes, while structural equation modelling was used to identify the process of posttraumatic growth. [...] |
URI: | https://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/5244 |
metadata.etd.degree.discipline: | Psychology : Clinical |
metadata.etd.degree.name: | Doctor of Philosophy |
metadata.etd.degree.level: | Doctoral |
metadata.dc.contributor.advisor: | Rawana, Edward |
metadata.dc.contributor.committeemember: | Klein, Rupert Tan, Josephine Boucher, Chantal |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 |
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