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e, compared with females, males may be less likely to dis- close CSA (e.g., Finkelhor, Hotaling, Lewis, & Smith, 1990; Widom & Morris, 1997; but see Goodman et al., 2003) and may have less detailed autobiographical memories about emotional events (Davis, 1999). If males are hesitant to talk about CSA, their m

03) for details about the measures in the original study and identification of target eases. enpectively. sfin predictors of Mime I disclosure. see Goodman et al. j2003). An identical analysis predicting disc home in the smaller Mime 3 sample revealed similar findings. ahlsough age no longer significantly pre

abuse in a national survey of adult men and women: Prevalence. characteristics. and risk factors. Child Abuse and Neglect. 14. 19-28. Foa. E.B.. Cashman. I... Jaycox. L. & Peny. K. (1997). The validation of a self-report measure of posuraumaiie stress disorder. The Postuatunatic Diagnostic Scale. Ps

Stress" Diagnostic Scale (PDS), which has commendable psy- chometric pmperties (e.g., internal consistencies from .78 to .84 for the criteria: Foa, Cashman, Jaycox, & Perry, 1997). This measure provides a list of traumatic events (including CSA); respondents indicate which events happened to them and,

n, 2015; Van Abbema & Bauer, 2005). For example, adolescents and adults accurately remember injuries and assaults experienced 6 to 13 years prior (Goodman et al., 2003; Greenhoot, McClo- skey, & Glisky, 2005). Young children's ability to remember details of a medical event decreases over an initial 3-month p

, J. (2004). Weathering the storm: Children's long- term recall of Hurricane Andrew. Memory, 12(1), 104-118. doi:10.1080/09658210244000397 Foa, E., Cashman, L., Jaycox, L, & Perry, K. (1997). The valida- tion of a self-report measure of PTSD: The Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale. Psychological Assessment,

Time 2 they completed the 40-item Trauma Symptom Checklist (TSC; Elliot & Briere, 1992) and the 49-item Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS; Foa, Cashman, Jaycox, & Perry, 1997). For our sample, rel- evant means and standard deviations on these measures were: TSC total score, M = 23.92, SD = 14.08; TS

ng adults who, more than a decade earlier, were involved in criminal prosecutions as victims of CSA and participated in a study of court testimony (Goodman et al., 1992). De- tailed documentation of the abuse was available for all cases. The re- search goals were to (a) compare disclosure rates of documented CS

estionnaires of psychopathology, such as the Dissociative Experiences Scale (Bernstein & Putnam. 1986) and the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (Foa. Cashman. laycox. & Perry. 1997); and (c) an in-person interview (n w 107).' For scientific and ethical reasons, participants were never told that we knew o