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Publication Date: 2004-Sep
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Noncoercive Sexual Contact with Similarly Aged Individuals: What is the Impact?
Friedrich, William N.; Whiteside, Stephen P.; Talley, Nicholas J.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, v19 n9 p1075-1084 Sep 2004
A community sample of 610 adults were grouped into those who reported no sexual abuse experience, others who reported noncoercive sexual contact with an individual that was at most 4 years older, and those who reported more severe sexual abuse. The first two groups did not differ from each other on current social support, trauma-specific symptomatology, and somatic complaints whereas the more severe sexual abuse group reported more problems on these dimensions. Further analyses suggested that of the two variables, coercion was more closely associated with problematic outcome than was the existence of an age difference.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Adults, Emotional Response, Victims of Crime, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Questionnaires
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Language: English
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