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JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 685-695Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013033920267
Keywords
rape; violence; older adult; assault; prevalence
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- NIDA NIH HHS [DA 05220] Funding Source: Medline
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This study compared characteristics of recently occurring assaults against younger adults (age 18-34 years) with those of distant-past assaults against older adults (age 55-89 years) when they were younger Responses of a subset of participants in the National Women's Study were the source of data for this study. With the exception of perceived life threat during assault (more prevalent in younger women), assault characteristics did not vary greatly by age in terms of proportions reporting that they had seen the perpetrator before; the event was one in a series; they or the perpetrator were under the influence of a substance; they actually experienced injury; and they reported the assault to authorities. Consistent with previous research, younger women reported greater prevalences of assault than older women.
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