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Sexual Trauma, Attachment, And Dissociation In Eating Disorder Populations, Kelly Cauley Rivinius
Sexual Trauma, Attachment, And Dissociation In Eating Disorder Populations, Kelly Cauley Rivinius
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The current study examined the process by which attachment influences dissociation in the presence of sexual trauma history. Sixty-two female individuals completed measures of attachment, trauma, and dissociation as a part of the intake assessment process the first week of their admission to a partial hospitalization program for treatment of an eating disorder. These archival data (2006 – 2013) were hand scored and coded by the researcher to ensure consistency across measures. Multiple mediations in parallel and moderated mediations in parallel were run using Hayes’ (2012) bootstrapping PROCESS macros. Consistent with predictions derived from the literature, sexual trauma significantly predicted …
Unwanted Sexual Experience: An Investigation Of Emotion And Physiology, Julie Alberty
Unwanted Sexual Experience: An Investigation Of Emotion And Physiology, Julie Alberty
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The statistics on the prevalence of sexual abuse are varied and alarmingly large. Rojas and Kinder (2007) showed that a little less than 30% of males stated that they had been sexually abused while a little over 30% of females reported being sexually abused. The purpose of this study is to obtain additional information regarding cognitive-affective processing in individuals who have had an unwanted sexual experience. The current study is a pilot study that questions whether a difference in physiological response, as measured by skin conductance and heart rate, will occur in people who have had an unwanted sexual experience …