Predicting College Women’s Body-Esteem and Self-Esteem Based on Rape Experience, Recency, and Labeling
Abstract
We examined body-esteem and self-esteem based on rape experience, rape labeling status (yes; no) and recency of rape (recently, within past year; earlier, between age 14 and the past year). Undergraduate women ( n = 1,005) completed the Body-Esteem Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and Sexual Experiences Survey. Women raped within the past year (recently) reported lower levels of both body-esteem and self-esteem than those raped over a year ago (earlier) and nonvictims, but women raped earlier did not differ from nonvictims. Rape labeling status was not significant. Findings identify lower body-esteem, in addition to lower self-esteem, as correlates of recent rape.
Faculty Members
- Suzanne L. Osman - Salisbury University, MD, USA
- Carolyne Paige Merwin - Salisbury University, MD, USA
Themes
- Impact of recent trauma
- Self-esteem
- Body-esteem
- Rape experiences
Categories
- Counseling and applied psychology nec
- Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Social sciences
- Health sciences
- Counseling and applied psychology
- Health services research
- Public health, general
- Clinical psychology
- Psychology
- Clinical child psychology
- Research and experimental psychology
- Social psychology
- Public health
- Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies nec
- Sociology, general
- Sociology, demography, and population studies
- Sociology, demography, and population studies nec