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Child Maltreatment, Vol. 10, No. 4, 350-363 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1077559505279366

Shame, Humiliation, and Childhood Sexual Abuse: Distinct Contributions and Emotional Coherence

Claudio Negrao, II

George A. Bonanno

Teachers College, Columbia University

Jennie G. Noll

Frank W. Putnam

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Penelope K. Trickett

University of Southern California

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.

Key Words: child sexual abuse • humiliation • shame • posttraumatic stress disorder


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