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ArticleMilitary psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association2025

Do betrayal-based moral injury and drinking to cope explain the association between military sexual trauma and alcohol consumption?

Michelle L Kelley, Megan Strowger, Jeffrey M Gabelmann

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Article in Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Michelle L KelleyDepartment of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3643-0419
Megan StrowgerDepartment of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
Jeffrey M GabelmannDepartment of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.

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Abstract

The present study examined two sequential mediation models in which betrayal-based moral injury and drinking to cope were hypothesized to explain the associations between sexual assault/sexual harassment and alcohol consumption. Participants were a community sample of 93 current or former U.S. military women (30.4 years; SD = 8.01) who completed an online, anonymous survey. In both models, sexual assault and sexual harassment and alcohol consumption were explained by betrayal-based moral injury and drinking to cope. It may be important to assess for and therapeutically address betrayal-based moral injury as it may be a mechanism that drives alcohol consumption.

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Adaptation, PsychologicalAlcohol DrinkingMilitary PersonnelMoralsSex OffensesSexual HarassmentSexual TraumaAdultFemaleHumansMiddle AgedMilitary Sexual TraumaSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited StatesYoung Adultalcohol consumptionbetrayal-based moral injurydrinking to copeMilitary sexual traumamilitary women

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PMID40526461
PMCPMC12413067

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