Relation Between Sexual Assault and Negative Affective Conditions in Female College Students: Does Loss of Hope Account for the Association?

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2017-04-01

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Chang, Edward C.
Jilani, Zunaira
Yu, Tina
Lin, Jiachen
Muyan, Mine
Hirsch, Jameson K.

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The present study examined dispositional hope as a potential mediator of the association between sexual assault and negative affective conditions, namely, depressive and anxious symptoms in a sample of 223 female college students. Results from conducting bootstrapped mediation analyses indicated that hope agency, but not hope pathways, mediated the link between sexual assault victimization and negative affective conditions in females. Importantly, the associations of sexual assault with both depressive and anxious symptoms remained highly significant independent of hope. Some implications of the present findings are discussed.

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Female college students, Sexual assault, Hope, Depressive symptoms, Anxious symptoms

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68326

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JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE

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https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260515588534

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Department of Educational Sciences, Article

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E. C. Chang, Z. Jilani, T. Yu, J. Lin, M. Muyan, and J. K. Hirsch, “Relation Between Sexual Assault and Negative Affective Conditions in Female College Students: Does Loss of Hope Account for the Association?,” JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE, pp. 1249–1266, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68326.