ArticlePsychology of violence2016
In-The-Moment Dissociation, Emotional Numbing, and Sexual Risk: The Influence of Sexual Trauma History, Trauma Symptoms, and Alcohol Intoxication.
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- Causal Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Condom Negotiation Skills of Women with Varying Sexual Assault Histories.AIDS and behavior · 2025Trial
- Women's Sex-Related Dissociation: The Effects of Alcohol Intoxication, Attentional Control Instructions, and History of Childhood Sexual Abuse.Journal of sex & marital therapy · 2017Trial
- Adult sexual risk behavior in a Canadian sample of two-spirit, trans, and non-binary survivors of childhood sexual abuse.International journal of transgender health · 2026Article
- Interoception in Fear Learning and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2023Article
- Sexual Victimization, Self-Efficacy to Refuse Sex While Drinking, and Regretting Alcohol-Involved Sex among Underserved Youth in Kampala, Uganda.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Role of Alcohol-Related Behavioral Risk in the Design of HIV Prevention Interventions in the Era of Antiretrovirals: Alcohol Challenge Studies and Research Agenda.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Psychological Effects of Abuse, Partner Pressure, and Alcohol: The Roles of in-the-Moment Condom Negotiation Efficacy and Condom-Decision Abdication on Women's Intentions to Engage in Condomless Sex.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2021Article
- Gender-Related Differences in Associations Between Sexual Abuse and Hypersexuality.The journal of sexual medicine · 2020Article
- Child Sexual Abuse and Compulsive Sexual Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review.Current addiction reports · 2020Article
- A Brief Report on the Association between Dissociation During Sex and Condom Use Self-Efficacy Among Women Residing in Domestic Violence Shelters.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivePrior research on the effects of sexual trauma has examined dissociation but not emotional numbing during sex and has relied exclusively on retrospective surveys. The present experiment examined associations among distal factors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), adolescent/adult sexual assault (ASA), and trauma symptoms and the proximal factor of acute alcohol intoxication on in-the-moment dissociation, emotional numbing, and sexual risk intentions.
methodYoung adult female drinkers (
resultsPath analysis revealed that CSA was indirectly associated with increased unprotected sex intentions through increased ASA severity, increased trauma-related symptoms, increased emotional numbing, and decreased unprotected sex refusal self-efficacy. Further, alcohol intoxication was indirectly associated with increased unprotected sex intentions through increased emotional numbing and decreased unprotected sex refusal self-efficacy.
conclusionsEmotional numbing, but not dissociation, was associated with unprotected sex intentions and may be one potential target for interventions aimed at reducing HIV/STI-related risk among women with a history of sexual trauma.
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