Stress, Coping, and Adjustment in Female Adolescent Incest Victims.

Johnson, Bret K.; Kenkel, Mary Beth

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ERIC Number: EJ430000

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Stress, Coping, and Adjustment in Female Adolescent Incest Victims.

Johnson, Bret K.; Kenkel, Mary Beth

Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, v15 n3 p293-305 1991

A study of 45 female adolescent incest victims in treatment found that wishful thinking, tension reduction, a lack of maternal support, appraisals of threat, and "holding self back" accounted for 70 percent of the variance in self-reported distress. Detachment, seeking social support, and appraisal of "holding self back" accounted for 38 percent of the variance in therapist ratings. (BRM)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Child Abuse, Coping, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Problems, Females, Incest, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Psychopathology, Psychotherapy, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Sexual Abuse, Stress Variables

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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