Coping Styles, Quality of Life, and Sexual Trauma in Women Veterans

The purpose of the following study was to evaluate sexual trauma and the effects on women veteran's quality of life ratings and current and past coping strategies. Participants were screened for sexual trauma history and divided into five mutually exclusive categories: 1)childhood sexual trauma, 2)civilian adult sexual trauma, 3)military sexual trauma, 4)multiple sexual trauma, and 5)no sexual trauma. Results of the study were mixed, retaining some hypotheses and rejecting others. Results regarding differences in QOL for the sexual trauma groups were rejected, as none of the QOL analyses were significant. Issues of small effect size for the QOL measure and low power to detect differences are discussed as limitations in the current study. Several significant findings were detected in the coping analyses. As predicted, the no trauma group was found to use significantly more approach coping strategies than the sexual trauma group for the past problem. Additionally, the sexual trauma group used significantly more avoidant coping techniques for past problem than the no trauma group. No between group differences were detected for sexual trauma type, however, several significant differences emerged in the comparisons of the multiple sexual trauma and military sexual trauma group's past coping compared to the no sexual trauma group's coping strategies. For past coping, the no trauma group used more approach strategies than the military or multiple trauma group. Past and current significant CRI subscale differences were also detected. Results regarding the relationship between QOL and CRI were rejected, as the two scales were not found to correlate significantly. Trauma history and avoidant coping were also nonsignificant predictors for General Life Satisfaction on the QOL measure. Additional exploratory analyses are presented as well as implications for research, theory and clinical practice.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2001

Author dc:creator

• Zak, Elizabeth N.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Watkins, C. Edward
• Suris, Alina
• Cogan, Karen D.
• McConnell, Judith
• Schneider, Lawrence

• Coping Styles, Quality of Life, and Sexual Trauma in Women Veterans
• Adjustment (Psychology)
• Sexual abuse victims -- Psychology.
• sexual trauma
• women veterans
• coping strategies
• quality of life

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Zak, Elizabeth N.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 51136795
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2858/
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