Child sexual abuse and its relationship to revictimization in adult women: A review

Messman, Terri L.; Long, Patricia J.

doi:10.1016/0272-7358(96)00019-0

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“…Findings from several sources indicate that CSA is a risk factor for various forms of later-life victimization, either physical or sexual, have recently been the subject of a detailed review (see Messman & Long, 1996). Part of this phenomenon of revictimization appears to involve physical abuse by male partners.…”

Section: Couple Relationshipsmentioning

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Interpersonal functioning among women reporting a history of childhood sexual abuse: empirical findings and methodological issues

DiLillo

2001

Clinical Psychology Review

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Section: Couple Relationshipsmentioning

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Interpersonal functioning among women reporting a history of childhood sexual abuse: empirical findings and methodological issues

DiLillo

2001

Clinical Psychology Review

251

164

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“…In some research, for example, the term re-victimization has meant a connection between a childhood victimization and an adult victimization, such as child sexual abuse and adult rape (Arata, 1999;Arata & Lindman, 2002;Desai, Arias, Thompson, & Basile, 2002;Merrill et al, 1999;Messman & Long, 1996, 2000Noll, Horowitz, Bonanno, Trickett, & Putnam, 2003;Wyatt, Guthrie, & Notgrass, 1992). In other research, where the more frequently used term is repeat victimization, it has meant two victimizations occurring in closer proximity, such as two burglaries over the course of several years (Farrell, Philips, & Pease, 1995;Hope, Bryan, Trickett, & Osborn, 2001;Lauritsen & Quinet, 1995;Menard & Huizinga, 2001;Outlaw, Ruback, & Britt, 2002).…”

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Re-victimization patterns in a national longitudinal sample of children and youth

Finkelhor

Ormrod

Turner

2007

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Objective: To understand to the degree to which a broad variety of victimizations, including child maltreatment, conventional crime, peer, and sexual victimizations, persist for children from 1 year to the next. Design: A national sample of 1467 children aged 2-17 recruited through random digit dialing and assessed via telephone interviews (with caretakers and youth themselves) about a comprehensive range of victimization experiences in the previous year, and then re-assessed (72.3% of baseline sample) after a 1-year interval. Results:The risk for re-victimization in Year 2 was high for children victimized in Year 1, with risk ratios ranging from 2.2 for physical assault to 6.9 for sexual victimization. Victimization of any one type left substantial vulnerability even for different types of subsequent re-victimization (e.g., property crime victimization was associated with higher risk of sexual victimization the next year). Children with four or more types of victimization in Year 1 ("poly-victims") were at particularly high risk of persisting poly-victimization. Persisting poly-victimization was more likely for children who scored high on anger/aggression and who had recent life adversities. Desistence from poly-victimization was associated with having more good friends. Onset of poly-victimization in Year 2, in contrast to persistence from Year 1, was associated with violent or maltreating families, family problems such as alcohol abuse, imprisonment, unemployment and family disruption. Having more older siblings acted as both a risk factor and a protective factor for different groups of youth. Conclusion: Children previously victimized in 1 year are at higher risk of continued victimization, and the polyvictims are at particular risk. These findings suggest the potential merit of identifying these high-risk children and making them priority targets for prevention efforts.

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“…Physical Victimization using Adolescent Sexual Abuse……………... women following victimization as a child, exacerbates issues associated with the initial abuse in childhood (Classen, Palesh, & Aggarwal, 2005;Messman & Long, 1996).…”

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“…Studies reviewed by Messman & Long (1996) suggest that between 16% and 72% of women who experience child sexual abuse are revictimized as adults. Furthermore, Wyatt et al (1992) found that women who had experienced sexual abuse as a child were 2.4 times more likely than women who had not experienced child sexual abuse to be victimized as adults.…”

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Revictimization: Advancing Theory and Method

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2007

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Child sexual abuse and its relationship to revictimization in adult women: A review

Cited by 252 publications

References 30 publications

Interpersonal functioning among women reporting a history of childhood sexual abuse: empirical findings and methodological issues

Interpersonal functioning among women reporting a history of childhood sexual abuse: empirical findings and methodological issues

Re-victimization patterns in a national longitudinal sample of children and youth

Revictimization: Advancing Theory and Method

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