1. Does Maternal Support Mediate or Moderate the Relationship between Sexual Abuse Severity and Children’s PTSD Symptoms?
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Rachel Wamser-Nanney, Claudia L. Campbell, and Julia C. Sager
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Injury control ,Accident prevention ,Poison control ,Suicide prevention ,Occupational safety and health ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic ,Injury prevention ,Humans ,Medicine ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Child ,Maternal Behavior ,Psychiatry ,business.industry ,050901 criminology ,05 social sciences ,Social Support ,Human factors and ergonomics ,Child Abuse, Sexual ,Mother-Child Relations ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,Sexual abuse ,Child, Preschool ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Female ,0509 other social sciences ,business ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
Maternal support and abuse severity are often considered to be vital factors in predicting children's functioning following childhood sexual abuse (CSA); however, much of the prior research has examined support and abuse severity as main effects, without consideration of how these factors may interrelate to predict children's post-CSA functioning. Further, even though mediators and moderators are conceptually distinct, maternal support has been theorized to be both a mediator and a moderator of symptoms, and it is unclear if support acts as either among sexually abused children. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether caregiver-reported maternal support mediates or moderates the relationships between sexual abuse severity and children's trauma-related symptoms. The study included 235 treatment-seeking children ages 3-16 (
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- 2020
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