Sexual harassment and posttraumatic stress disorder: Damages beyond prior abuse

Margaret S. Stockdale; T. K. Logan; Rebecca Weston

doi:10.1007/s10979-008-9162-8

Sexual harassment and posttraumatic stress disorder: Damages beyond prior abuse

Margaret S. Stockdale, T. K. Logan, Rebecca Weston

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Abstract

This study examined the extent to which harassment experiences correlate with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and whether diagnosable PTSD on the basis of sexual harassment occurs after accounting for prior PTSD, prior sexual abuse, and prior psychological dysfunction. The sample consisted of a two-wave panel of 445 women who had received a domestic violence protective order from a Kentucky court. Hierarchical linear and logistic analyses confirmed that sexual harassment experiences were significantly correlated with PTSD symptoms after controlling for an extensive set of trauma variables measured in both the baseline and follow up interviews. Our findings lend further evidence that claims of PTSD from sexual harassment may be credible even if claimants have been victims of other forms of trauma.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	405-418
Number of pages	14
Journal	Law and Human Behavior
Volume	33
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10979-008-9162-8
State	Published - Oct 2009

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Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This research was supported by grant # AA12735 and the University of Kentucky General Clinical Research Organization funded by the National Institute of Health grant # M01RR02602. We thank Barbara Gutek and Ben Rodriguez for helpful comments on this manuscript and to Seth Berry for editorial assistance. We are also indebted to our research participants who took considerable time to share their lives with us.

Keywords

Damages
Intimate partner violence
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Sexual harassment

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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
General Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health
Law

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