Sexual Victimization and the Military Environment: Contributing Factors, Vocational, Pyschological, and Medical Sequelae.

Abstract

The goal of this study is to determine military environmental factors associated with sexual victimization (harassment, sexual touching, and rape) of service women, and to determine consequent vocational impairment, health status impairment and psychological outcomes (such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). Such information could lead to the development of specific prevention strategies and thereby directly improve service women's safety, health, and military effectiveness. Our pilot data indicated that military environmental factors are associated with sexual victimization and resultant psychological distress. Research Questions: (1) What military environmental factors are associated with sexual victimization of service women? (2) How is the psychological functioning and health status of women veterans affected by sexual victimization? (3) How does sexual victimization impair self reported military job performance, job satisfaction, and service attrition or longevity of affected service women?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA328170

Entities

People

  • Anne G Sadler

Organizations

  • Veterans Administration Medical Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Army Personnel
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Medical Personnel
  • Persian Gulf
  • Regression Analysis
  • Sexual Assault
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Surveys
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.