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- Title
Construing benefit from a negative experience of incest... including commentary by Murphy SA and Artinian BM with author response.
- Authors
Draucker CB
- Abstract
This study investigated the process of construing benefit from a victimizing event, as suggested by the theory of selective evaluation (Taylor et al., 1983), in a group of incest survivors. Incest might be an especially difficult experience from which to construe benefit. Unlike an automobile accident, for example, incest remains a societal taboo and is associated with shame. Also, unlike some other types of trauma (e.g., crime experiences), incest is often a repetitive experience occurring over many years. Incest usually occurs at a critical developmental period, and it always involves betrayal by a trusted other. For these reasons, the process of construing benefit might be different and perhaps more problematic for incest survivors than for other victims. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which incest survivors do engage in the process of construing benefit from their experience and to systematically describe the type of positive outcomes reported by the survivors.
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 1992, Vol 14, Issue 3, p343
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/019394599201400306