Pathways from childhood abuse to prospective revictimization: @entity308 , sex to reduce negative affect, and forecasted XXXX .

@entity1 @entity308 @entity146 @entity458 @entity1281 @entity734
Research suggests that adverse events in childhood, such as childhood physical, @entity458 , confer risk for later sexual assault. Psychological distress, coping strategies, and @entity146 may help explain the path from childhood abuse to revictimization. The present study explored how the use of sex to regulate negative affect (SRNA) operates independently, and in combination with other psychosocial factors to increase college @entity1 's (N=541) risk of experiencing prospective adult sexual assault (ASA). Sequential multiple mediator models in Mplus were used to assess the effect of three different forms of childhood abuse on prospective ASA, both independently and while controlling for other forms of childhood abuse. The indirect effect of adolescent sexual assault (AdolSA), @entity308 , SRNA, and @entity1 ' response to a sex-related vignette was tested using bias-corrected bootstrapping. In the full path model, @entity734 and AdolSA predicted ASA, while childhood physical and @entity458 were directly associated with AdolSA, but not @entity1281 . Additionally, @entity308 and @entity1 ' estimate of their likely behavior in a sex-related vignette directly predicted prospective ASA. Results using bootstrapping revealed that a history of childhood abuse predicted prospective ASA via diverse direct and indirect paths, as well as through a similar multiple mediator path. Overall, findings suggest that a combination of affective, coping, and sexual expectancy factors contribute to risk for revictimization in adult survivors of childhood abuse. Future research directions and targets for risk-reduction programming are discussed.
