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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/PTSD in adolescent victims of sexual abuse: resilience and social support as protection factors

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Hébert, Martine, Lavoie, Francine, Blais, Martin·2014·Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

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This analysis examined the contribution of personal, family (maternal and paternal support; sibling support) and extra-familiar (peer support; other adults) resilience to the prediction of clinical levels of PTSD symptoms in adolescents reporting sexual abuse. Controls were established for abuse-related variables (type of abuse, severity and multiple abuse) in a representative sample of high schools students in the province of Quebec. A total of 15.2% of adolescent females and 4.4% adolescent males in high school reported a history of sexual abuse in childhood. Sexually abused adolescent females (27.8%) were more likely than adolescent males (14.9%) to achieve scores with high clinical levels of PTSD. Hierarchical logistic regression revealed that over and above the characteristics of the sexual abuse experienced, resilience factors (maternal and peer support) contributed to the prediction of symptoms of PTSD attaining the clinical threshold. Alternative intervention and prevention practices geared to adolescent victims of sexual assault are discussed.

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  • Adaptive functioning with regards to mental health is evident in sexually abused or assaulted children and adolescents.

    “Adaptive functioning with regards to mental health is also evident in sexually abused or assaulted children and adolescents (Daigneault et al. 2007a; Hébert et al. 2014; Domhardt et al. 2014)”

    From Mindfulness as Mediator and Moderator of Post-traumatic Symptomatology in Adolescence Following Childhood Sexual Abuse or Assault (2016) · cites this paper as Hébert et al. 2014

    The Regression analysis (page unavailable) reports that sexually abused teenagers with higher resilience scores were less likely to have PTSD symptoms in the clinical range, and the Discussion describes diverse outcomes among these teenagers. This supports the claim for adolescents, but the paper's finding concerns PTSD symptoms rather than mental-health functioning generally and does not establish the same finding for younger children. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Studies report that the age and gender of the victim impact on the symptomatological condition resulting from abuse.

    “studies report that the age and gender of the victim impact on the symptomatological condition resulting from the abuse (Hébert, Lavoie, & Blais, 2014;Ruiz, 2016).”

    From Psychological and Behavioral Indicators in the Forensic Assessment of Child Sexual Abuse (2018) · cites this paper as Hébert, Lavoie, & Blais, 2014

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Authors
Hébert, M., Lavoie, F., & Blais, M.
Affiliations
  • Université du Québec à Montréal (CA)
  • Université Laval (CA)
Venue
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
Published
2014-03
Volume
19
Issue
3
Pages
685-694
ISSN
1413-8123 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2133146944
Cited by
114
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 2
FWCI
8.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Americanae (AECID Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (103944_1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
Keywords
post-traumatic stress disorder, adolescent sexual abuse, resilience, social support, maternal support, peer support, sibling support, protection factor, child sexual abuse, high school students, sex differences, prevention and intervention
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Child Abuse, Sexual, Female, Humans, Male, Parents, Social Support, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

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