APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
The Role of Adolescents’ Perceptions of Mattering in the Relation between Caregiver Social Support and Adolescent Resilience after Sexual Abuse
- Tricia Gower
Southern Methodist University - Ernest Jouriles
Southern Methodist University - Caitlin Rancher
Southern Methodist University - Colton Kurth
Dallas Children's Advocacy Center - Renee McDonald
Southern Methodist University
Abstract
Adolescent and caregiver reports of social support from a non-abusing caregiver correlated positively with adolescents’ resilience following sexual abuse. Adolescents’ perceptions of mattering to others (i.e., feeling loved, valued, and needed) accounted for the relation between adolescent, but not caregiver, reports of non-abusing caregiver social support and adolescent resilience.
Risk/Resilience