ArticleJournal of interpersonal violence2021
Indirect Effects From Childhood Sexual Abuse Severity to PTSD: The Role of Avoidance Coping.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Psychological mediators of the associations between adverse and benevolent childhood experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of traumatic stress · 2026Pooled it
- Mental health outcomes associated with military sexual trauma in serving and ex-servicewomen: A systematic review.Psychological medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The role of gender and child sexual abuse history in treatment response in two treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2026Trial
- Preventing Childhood Sexual Abuse Related Mental Health Deterioration Using a Narrative Family Intervention in Burundi.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Trial
- Avoidant coping behaviors as risk factor in the relationship between heterosexism and PTSD severity among young sexual minority women.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2026Article
- Posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology among gay, bisexual, and other sexually minoritized cisgender men in the United States: A latent class analysis.SSM. Mental health · 2025Article
- Childhood Sexual Abuse and Compulsive Sexual Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Newly Diagnosed with HIV.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
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- Childhood Trauma and Exposure to Violence Interventions: The Need for Effective and Feasible Evidence-Based Interventions.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- A network approach to the symptom-level associations between smoking and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among young adults exposed to childhood sexual abuse.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- Association of adverse childhood experiences and cortical neurite density alterations with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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- Substance Use Stigma, Avoidance Coping, and Missed HIV Appointments Among MSM Who Use Substances.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Early Sexual Experiences, Mental Health, and Risk Behavior among Black Non-Hispanic and Hispanic / Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM).Journal of child sexual abuse · 2020Article
- Effects of syndemic psychiatric diagnoses on health indicators in men who have sex with men.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2019Article
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Abstract
Men who have sex with men (MSM) disproportionately experience childhood sexual abuse (CSA) compared with heterosexual men, often resulting in continued trauma-related sequelae, including symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) such as avoidance. The variability in trauma-related sequelae may be associated with chronicity or duration of CSA. The relationship between duration of CSA and later PTSD symptom severity is not well understood, including the extent coping strategies account for these relationships. We used linear regression to examine these relationships and to assess the indirect effects of avoidance (behavioral disengagement and denial) and adaptive coping strategies on the relationship between CSA duration and adult PTSD symptom severity on a diverse sample included 290 MSM with a history of CSA. In adjusted models, CSA duration was significantly associated with adult PTSD symptom severity (standardized β = .23,
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