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Predictors and correlates of
revictimization in abused women
Griffing, S., Lewis, C.S., Chu, M.,
Sage, R.E., Madry, L. & Primm, B.J.
Urban Resource Institute/Urban Women's Retreat
Brooklyn, New York (2002)
This study investigates the relationship between childhood
victimization, adolescent and adult interpersonal violence,
and trauma-related symptoms, in a multi-ethnic sample
of 145 female residents of a domestic violence shelter.
As expected, childhood abuse history predicted the frequency
of lifetime victimization and was associated with experiencing
multiple abusive relationships in adolescence and/or adulthood.
Lifetime victimization also significantly predicted posttraumatic
stress disordered symptomatology. Clinical implications
of the findings will be discussed.
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