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- Title
Lifestyle among Abuse-Reporting Outpatients.
- Authors
Waters, Dana P.; Westermeyer, Jerry F.; Gralewski, Carolyn; Schneider, Mary F.; Warkentin, Monica
- Abstract
The authors sought to identify lifestyle differences between outpatients who did not report a history of abuse (N = 35; 25 female, 12 male) and outpatients who did report a history of abuse (N = 43; 25 female, 18 male). They measured lifestyle using the BASIS-A Inventory (Curlette, Wheeler, & Kern, 1997), and they used a semistructured interview to determine a history of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse and social functioning. The group of outpatients who had reported abuse showed significantly higher Being Cautious, Liked by All, and Softness scores than the other group. Further, the outpatients who reported abuse had significantly lower Belonging/Social Interest and Entitlement scores. These findings suggest that retrospective reports of abuse are associated with specific impairment in social adjustment and lifestyle themes.
- Subjects
LIFESTYLES; PATIENTS; ABUSE of women; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; PSYCHOLOGY of men
- Publication
Journal of Individual Psychology, 2008, Vol 64, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
1522-2527
- Publication type
Article