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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Volume 17, Issue 12, Pages 1601-1618Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1077801211436138
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religious coping; sexual assault; social support
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African American women are at high risk for sexual assault. In addition, many African American women endorse the use of social support and religiosity to cope with trauma. The current study investigates the relationship between these two coping strategies and posttrauma symptoms in a sample of 413 African American female sexual assault survivors using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Findings indicated that survivors with greater social support were less likely to endorse the symptoms of depression and PTSD. Conversely, increased use of religious coping was related to greater endorsement of depression and PTSD symptoms. Counseling and research implications are explored.
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