Modeling the causal relationships between self-blame, shame, post-traumatic stress disorder, coping avoidance strategy, and suicidal ideation among adolescent girls subjected to sexual harassment

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Assistant professor researcher at the National Center for Examination and Educational Evaluation

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The study aimed to investigate the effect of shame, confrontation avoidance strategies, and post-traumatic stress disorder on the relationship between self-blame and suicidal ideation among adolescent girls who have been subjected to sexual harassment. The sample of the study consisted of (88) female students in the first, second, and third grades of middle school, who were deliberately chosen from a number of preparatory schools affiliated to the administrations (East Nasr City, Ain Shams, Agouza, Oseem, Dokki, and North Giza) who had previously been exposed to one of the following: Forms of sexual harassment, and the results indicated that shame, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the avoidance strategy completely mediate the relationship between self-blame and suicidal ideation. Approximately 46.5% of the girls who were subjected to harassment had thought about suicide one or more times during the past month, and 14.6% % of them had thought about suicide 10 times, which means that these feelings are completely controlled by them. There is also a statistically significant positive relationship between thoughts of suicide and each of the feelings of shame, self-blame, avoidance of confrontation, and post-traumatic stress disorder, where the values of the Spearman correlation coefficient ranged between (0.318, 0.407), which are all statistically significant values at the level (0.01).

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Journal of Qena Faculty of Arts
Volume 32, Issue 58
January (Humanities)
January 2023
Pages 615-666

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