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Childhood Sexual Abuse and Multiple Dimensions of Self-Concept

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Heather L. Servaty-Seib

Purdue University

Ann N. Elliott

Radford University

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between child sexual abuse (CSA) and self-concept in a nonclinical sample of female college students. Participants with a history of CSA had lower scores than participants without a history of CSA on four domains of self-concept: familial, affect, competence, and physical. History of CSA was not associated with lower self-concept in the social and academic domains. The primary conclusions to be drawn from this study are that CSA may be differentially associated with various domains of self-concept, and thus multidimensional assessment of self-concept can yield useful information that cannot be gathered from global measures which yield a single composite score.

Key Words: child sexual abuse • self-concept • adult survivors

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