RT Article
T1 Predicting Body-Esteem Based on Type of Sexual Victimization Experience
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 37
IS 13/14
A1 Osman, Suzanne L.
A1 Nicholson, Jamie P.
A2 Nicholson, Jamie P.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1884208134
AB Almost no research exists examining the relationship between body-esteem and sexual victimization experience in adulthood. The current study contributes to the literature by examining body-esteem based on type of sexual victimization experience (i.e., none, sexual contact, attempted sexual coercion, sexual coercion, attempted rape, rape). Participants included undergraduate women (n?=?750) who completed the Body-Esteem Scale (Franzoi & Shields, 1984) and the Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Victimization (Koss et al., 2007), and had either no history of sexual victimization experience or experience within the past year. Women with no sexual victimization experience did not differ from women with sexual contact experience, but both groups reported higher body-esteem than women with coercion, attempted coercion, and rape experience. These three latter groups did not differ from one another, but each reported lower body-esteem than women with attempted rape experience, who reported higher body-esteem than those with no experience. Findings are preliminary but suggest that body-esteem may be negatively associated with some types of sexual victimization experience (attempted and completed coercion, rape), but not others (sexual contact, attempted rape), and escaping rape may increase positive feelings toward one?s body.
K1 body-esteem
K1 Coercion
K1 Contact
K1 Rape
K1 Sexual Victimization
K1 type
DO 10.1177/0886260521997439