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Thesis
The Meaning of the Experience of Physical and/or Sexual Child Abuse to Adult Survivors
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
12/1997
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3994
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning adults who have a history of physical and/or sexual child abuse give to that experience and how it affects their life as an adult. The goal is to explore the adult survivor's own conceptualization of the long-term effects of their childhood traumatic experiences. This exploratory study will use qualitative methodology. Data will be collected from focus groups and a retrospective analysis of the interview data will be done using Van Kaam's psychophenomenological design. The sample will be a nonprobability convenience sample drawn from adult survivors of child physical and/or sexual abuse who are currently in a support group for child abuse survivors. Subjects will be asked to provide descriptions in response to the following: 1) Tell me what the experience of being abused as a child means to you now. 2)How does your history of abuse affect your life now? These descriptions will be formulated into a scientific explication based on the universal categories or constants found in the descriptions. These constants will be validated by the original subjects and by several phenomenologists. The validated constants will then be refined into the phenomenological explication of the universal, necessary and sufficient constituents of the studied behavior (Van Kaam, 1966). The final statements will use scientific terminology to define the meaning given to the child abuse experience by the survivors.
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- Title
- The Meaning of the Experience of Physical and/or Sexual Child Abuse to Adult Survivors
- Creators
- Karen R. Curry
- Contributors
- Michael Rice (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900590728001842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis