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The purpose of this study was to examine whether women who experience abuse as an adult have experienced abuse as a child. The relationship between the types of abuse experienced as a female adult and the types of abuse experienced as a child was also examined. Previous research…

The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between childhood sexual abuse (CSA), self-objectification, and risk recognition in a sample of freshman, college women. Self-objectification was expected to interfere with the ability to readily identify risk (ris…

Child abuse (CA) puts women at risk for later victimization by a different perpetrator, referred to as revictimization (RV); however, how this risk is conveyed is not well understood. CA is associated with a diverse set of negative sequelae (e.g., posttraumatic symptomology, emo…