TY - JOUR
T1 - Shame, humiliation, and childhood sexual abuse
T2 - Distinct contributions and emotional coherence
AU - Negrao, Claudio
AU - Bonanno, George A.
AU - Noll, Jennie G.
AU - Putnam, Frank W.
AU - Trickett, Penelope K.
PY - 2005/11
Y1 - 2005/11
N2 - Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) may produce powerful and enduring emotion reactions, including intense shame, anger, and humiliation. Whereas shame and anger have received considerable interest from researchers, less attention has been paid to humiliation or associated coherence among these emotions as it relates to the psychological adjustment in CSA survivors. In the current investigation, the authors coded shame, anger, and humiliation from narrative transcripts of CSA survivors as they either voluntarily disclosed an abuse experience or described a distressing nonabuse experience and from nonabused individuals as they described a distressing experience. Verbal humiliation was found to be significantly associated with nonverbal displays of shame. Coherence between verbal humiliation and facial shame among CSA nondisclosers was associated with increased symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.
AB - Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) may produce powerful and enduring emotion reactions, including intense shame, anger, and humiliation. Whereas shame and anger have received considerable interest from researchers, less attention has been paid to humiliation or associated coherence among these emotions as it relates to the psychological adjustment in CSA survivors. In the current investigation, the authors coded shame, anger, and humiliation from narrative transcripts of CSA survivors as they either voluntarily disclosed an abuse experience or described a distressing nonabuse experience and from nonabused individuals as they described a distressing experience. Verbal humiliation was found to be significantly associated with nonverbal displays of shame. Coherence between verbal humiliation and facial shame among CSA nondisclosers was associated with increased symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.
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U2 - 10.1177/1077559505279366
DO - 10.1177/1077559505279366
M3 - Article
C2 - 16204737
AN - SCOPUS:27744533387
SN - 1077-5595
VL - 10
SP - 350
EP - 363
JO - Child Maltreatment
JF - Child Maltreatment
IS - 4
ER -