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Coping with incest: The relationship between recollections of childhood coping and adult functioning in female survivors of incest
Author(s) -
Brand Bethany L.,
Alexander Pamela C.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1023/a:1023704309605
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , distancing , psychology , childhood abuse , clinical psychology , child abuse , social functioning , developmental psychology , social support , poison control , suicide prevention , disease , distress , covid-19 , social psychology , medicine , medical emergency , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
One hundred and one adult female survivors' recollections of coping with childhood incest, abuse characteristics, and current functioning in adulthood were studied. Analyses controlling for characteristics of the trauma indicated that recollections of using avoidance coping and seeking social support were related to poor adult functioning whereas recollections of using distancing coping were related to better functioning. As a set of variables, abuse characteristics also predicted a significant amount of variance in adult functioning. Implications for future research were discussed.