TY - JOUR
T1 - The Contribution of Cognitive Strategies to the Resilience of Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Non-Abused Women
AU - Kaye-Tzadok, Avital
AU - Davidson-Arad, Bilha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - This study examines the contribution of four strategies—self-forgiveness, realistic control, unrealistic control, and hope—to the resilience of 100 women survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), as compared with 84 non-sexually abused women. The findings show that CSA survivors exhibited lower resilience, lower self-forgiveness, lower hope, and higher levels of posttraumatic symptoms (PTS). They also indicate that resilience was explained by the participants’ financial status, PTS severity, and two cognitive strategies—self-forgiveness and hope. Finally, PTS and hope mediated the relation between CSA and resilience.
AB - This study examines the contribution of four strategies—self-forgiveness, realistic control, unrealistic control, and hope—to the resilience of 100 women survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), as compared with 84 non-sexually abused women. The findings show that CSA survivors exhibited lower resilience, lower self-forgiveness, lower hope, and higher levels of posttraumatic symptoms (PTS). They also indicate that resilience was explained by the participants’ financial status, PTS severity, and two cognitive strategies—self-forgiveness and hope. Finally, PTS and hope mediated the relation between CSA and resilience.
KW - childhood sexual abuse
KW - cognitive strategies
KW - hope
KW - posttraumatic stress disorder
KW - resilience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020066579&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1077801216652506
DO - 10.1177/1077801216652506
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AN - SCOPUS:85020066579
SN - 1077-8012
VL - 23
SP - 993
EP - 1015
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 8
ER -
