THE EFFECTS OF MARITAL STATUS AND PARTNER SUPPORT ON RAPE TRAUMA

• Published in: American journal of orthopsychiatry Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 379 - 391
• Main Authors: Moss, Mira, Frank, Ellen, Anderson, Barbara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK American Orthopsychiatric Association, Inc 01-07-1990; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; American Orthopsychiatric Association; Educational Publishing Foundation; American Psychological Association
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Adult; Behavior Therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Desensitization, Psychologic; Emotional Adjustment; Female; Human; Humans; Marital Relations; Marital Status; Medical sciences; Personality Inventory; Psychological Distress; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychosexual Development; Rape; Rape - psychology; Single Persons; Social Adjustment; Social Environment; Social Support; Suicide - psychology; Support; Trauma; Victimization; Victimology; Victims; Violence; Human; Marital relation; Rape; Marital status; Vulnerability; Psychological effect; Woman; Victimology; Social support
• ISSN: 0002-9432; 1939-0025
• DOI: 10.1037/h0079179

Psychological functioning within the first four weeks after rape was compared for married and single victims. Marital status did not significantly affect psychological symptoms following the assault. For married women, lack of support by the partner-particularly when it was unexpected-was significantly related to poor psychological functioning after the rape.