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Surviving Sexual Assault Together: Partners’ Perceptions of Posttraumatic Stress and Relationship Distress
Get PDFSexual assault (SA) survivors at risk for posttraumatic stress disorder can experience relationship distress that impacts their partner (Burden et al., 2020; Renshaw et al., 2012; 2018). While no research exists on SA partners’ perceptions of relationship distress, parallel studies of military veterans and their spouses show veterans’ PTSD symptoms may be misinterpreted by spouses as relationship distress (Ahrens & Campbell, 2000; Fredman et al., 2014; Renshaw et al., 2011; Renshaw & Caska, 2012). This study explored the relationships among partners’ perceptions of sexual assault survivors’ PTSD symptoms, partners’ relationship distress, and partners’ interpretation of the source of the relationship distress. Nonsignificant, small correlations
indicated no relationship between PTSD perceptions and relationship distress, contrary to the hypothesis. Significant moderate to large correlations indicated that as partners’ accommodating behaviors toward their sexual assault survivors increased, their relationship satisfaction and communication decreased. The hypothesis that an increase in partners perceptions of their sexual assault survivors’ PTSD symptoms would be associated with an increase in relationship distress was not supported; however, the lack of relationship between PTSD symptom perception and relationship distress offers hopeful clinical implications for SA survivors and their partners.
Keywords: PTSD, relationships, sexual assault survivors, partner perception, relationship dissatisfactionPsychology Departmen
Letter
No full textLetter of recommendation for the parole of James L. Doss, this one sent to the chairman of the DOJ parole board
Correspondence
No full textThe AGC Director of Research and Education sends AF's secretary, for AF, information on pricing for two-year technical schools. Strikes me as pertaining to Phillip
Ichabod Footbal History Shows Ups and Downs
No full textWashburn newspaper article on its football history includes a pic of AF on the field and calls him the university's "all-time leading rusher.
Is Evans Pulling the Sneak on His Running Mate
No full textArticle is very sour on Evans and Gorton in particular, claiming that the GOP plan is to have AF in place to be the nation's first Black Governor once Evans wins a senate seat; but notes that Evans hasn't been campaigning with AF since the Nixon appearance, and calls Gorton snobbish, hitting his labor records and saying AF is opening doors for him. Does include an interesting quotation from the Nixon appearance: "'How's my good freidn Art Fletcher doing?' Nixon inquired, 'I used to know him in Oakland.'
