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Peer reviewedFeiring, Candice; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1996
This article presents a theoretical and testable model of psychological processes in child and adolescent victims of sexual abuse. It proposes that sexual abuse leads to shame through mediation of cognitive attributions which leads to poor adjustment. Three factors--social support, gender, and developmental period--are hypothesized to moderate the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Child Abuse, Children
