Waldron Jonathan C, Wilson Laura C, Patriquin Michelle A, Scarpa Angela
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2015 Feb;30(4):622-39. doi: 10.1177/0886260514535258. Epub 2014 Jun 12.
The current study examined depression and physiological reactivity to a sexual threat task as longitudinal predictors of sexual revictimization in women with sexual victimization histories. The sample included 14 young adult women (M(age) = 19.15) who reported child sexual abuse. Heart rate and root mean square of the successive differences were measured at baseline and during the presentation of sexual victimization-related words during an Emotional Stroop task. Results indicated that women who reported a greater history of childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual victimization were at increased risk for sexual revictimization 6 months after initial data collection. Furthermore, even after accounting for their childhood and adult sexual victimization histories and depression symptoms, women who exhibited reduced, or blunted, physiological activity during the sexual victimization stimuli of the Stroop task were more likely to report sexual revictimization during the 6-month follow-up. The findings suggest that sexual victimization survivors may benefit from interventions that address physiological blunting and the recognition of sexual threat cues in their environment.
本研究考察了抑郁以及对性威胁任务的生理反应，将其作为有性侵害史女性再次遭受性侵害的纵向预测因素。样本包括14名报告曾遭受儿童性虐待的年轻成年女性（平均年龄 = 19.15岁）。在基线时以及在情绪斯特鲁普任务中呈现与性侵害相关的词汇期间，测量心率和逐次差值的均方根。结果表明，报告有更严重童年期性虐待和成年期性侵害史的女性，在首次数据收集6个月后再次遭受性侵害的风险增加。此外，即使在考虑了她们的童年期和成年期性侵害史以及抑郁症状之后，在斯特鲁普任务的性侵害刺激期间表现出生理活动减弱或迟钝的女性，在6个月随访期间更有可能报告再次遭受性侵害。研究结果表明，性侵害幸存者可能会从解决生理迟钝以及识别其环境中性威胁线索的干预措施中受益。
