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Sexual Harassment and Assault as Predictors of PTSD Symptomatology Among U.S. Female Persian Gulf War Military Personnel

JESSICA WOLFE

Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine

ERICA J. SHARKANSKY

Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine

JENNIFER P. READ

Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine

REE DAWSON

Harvard University School of Public Health

JAMES A. MARTIN

Bryn Mawr College

PAIGE CROSBY OUIMETTE

Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Rates and sequelae of sexual harassment and assault among women in a wartime military sample were examined. A second goal was to explore the comparative impacts of these stressors and combat exposure on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. Army women (n=160) were interviewed on return from the Persian Gulf War and again 18 to 24 months later. Rates of sexual assault (7.3%), physical sexual harassment (33.1%), and verbal sexual harassment (66.2%) were higher than those typically found in civilian and peacetime military samples. Sexual assault had a larger impact on PTSD symptomatology than combat exposure. Frequency of physical sexual harassment was significantly predictive of PTSD symptomatology. Furthermore, the number of postwar stressful life events mediated the relationship between physical sexual harassment and symptomatology but was not related to combat exposure. Sexual assault, sexual harassment, and combat exposure appear to be qualitatively different stressors for women, with different correlates and mechanisms of action.

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 13, No. 1, 40-57 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/088626098013001003
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