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Performance of female college students and sexual abuse survivors on the Brief Symptom Inventory
Author(s) -
Bennett Susan E.,
Hughes Honore M.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199609)52:5<535::aid-jclp6>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - psychology , sexual abuse , normative , clinical psychology , psychiatry , developmental psychology , suicide prevention , poison control , medicine , medical emergency , philosophy , epistemology
The relation between childhood molestation and current adjustment, as measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), was examined among women college students. Results suggest that the normative data available for the BSI are inappropriate for interpreting the performance of women college students and, particularly, students who have survived sexual abuse. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.