This study was designed to expand our understanding of the positive aspects of coping and resilience in female survivors of child sexual abuse. Research questions focused on women's lived experiences of being survivors of child sexual abuse and how they have experienced resilience, developed healthy intimate relationships, and viewed themselves as sexual beings. Using a qualitative research lens of phenomenology, we captured the essence of survivors' experiences of resilience. Although each woman's experience was unique, similar patterns of processes and outcomes emerged as meaningful in their development of resilient and healthy sexuality and relationship functioning. However, participants emphasized resilience as a process or journey-recovery from trauma, reconceptualization of self, and development of healthy sexuality included deliberate efforts occurring over time. Implications for future research and practice using a positive lens of resilience are provided.
Age at first marriage, and possibly age at first cohabitation, represent perhaps the strongest demographic predictors of both subsequent relationship satisfaction and stability in western developed nations. Although age at marriage is related to cohabitation, educational attainment, premarital births, and other factors, it appears to be the most important. Age at marriage may act as a suppressor variable for any adverse effects of premarital cohabitation or other related issues. Younger age at marriage is generally associated with lower socioeconomic status and lower educational attainment. Age at marriage decreased between 1900 and the 1950s in the United States but has risen since then. Age at marriage also figures into the red/blue state divide in the United States (red states are traditionally Republican; blue states are traditionally Democratic), being earlier in red states and later in blue states.
Statistical examples can feel remote to students, especially if the variables under consideration are ambiguous. However, life or death is not ambiguous but very concrete. Three different historical shipwrecks offer an abundance of ways to demonstrate the relevance and importance of statistics. Here, we discuss statistical outcomes associated with the loss of three ships: the HMT Birkenhead in 1852, the RMS Titanic in 1912, and the Korean ferry MV Sewol in April 2014. These disasters can serve as examples for demonstrating the relevance of statistics to current events. Statistics in these historical events can help students see that the survival rates of different groups of passengers were very different, with medium to large effect sizes. Even if statistical analyses cannot answer all of the questions about why some passengers had higher survival rates than others, they can lead to further productive qualitative or quantitative research into such questions.
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