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Shame‐proneness as a diathesis for dissociation in women with histories of childhood sexual abuse
Author(s) -
Talbot Jean A.,
Talbot Nancy L.,
Tu Xin
Publication year - 2004
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/b:jots.0000048959.29766.ae
Subject(s) - shame , sexual abuse , psychology , dissociation (chemistry) , childhood abuse , clinical psychology , child abuse , psychological abuse , poison control , suicide prevention , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , medical emergency , chemistry
This study examined whether shame‐proneness is associated with dissociation among abused women. Participants were 99 hospitalized women with and without reported histories of childhood sexual abuse. Hypotheses were that childhood sexual abuse and shame‐proneness would each be associated with dissociation, and that the relationship between sexual abuse and dissociation would be greater among women with higher shame‐proneness. Multiple regression analysis indicated that shame‐proneness was independently related to dissociation, but childhood sexual abuse was not. As predicted, the combination of shame‐proneness and childhood sexual abuse was associated with dissociation.