posttraumatic growth, depreciation, and psychopathology following sexual victimization: a unified model of predictors
abstract
sexual violence is amongst the most detrimental events a woman can experience,
with survivors suffering long-term consequences to their mental health and perception of self.
however, accumulating research shows trauma can also act as a catalyst for positive change. to
gain a fully comprehensive understanding of sexual victimization, a simultaneous examination of
positive and negative change is needed, as is an exploration of the cognitive and social
experiences that differentiate post-trauma presentations. method: female undergraduate
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(n = 358) completed standardized measures assessing positive and negative change
following trauma (i.e., posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic depreciation, respectively);
psychopathology (ptsd, anxiety, depression); world beliefs (thoughts of the world and other
people); cognitive processing styles (rumination types); and social experiences (disclosure
reactions and content). a series of regressions was used to identify the significant predictors of
the three post-trauma outcomes, while structural equation modelling was used to identify the
process of posttraumatic growth. [...]