Identifying as a Survivor Versus a Victim After Sexual Violence Predicts Divergent Posttrauma Pathways.

The present study investigated social identification with "survivors" versus "victims" following sexual violence and the degree to which this predicted posttraumatic growth versus posttraumatic stress. Participants (= 290) were adult women who had experienced sexual violence. As predicted, cumulative sexual trauma was positively associated with symptoms of posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth.

What Does it Mean to be a Woman? How the Content of Gender Identity May Facilitate Women's Coping with Sexual Harassment.

Sexual harassment and other forms of gendered discrimination are social psychological phenomena, yet the psychological impact of sexual harassment has rarely been examined through a model which considers the role of diverse of gender identity (i.e. norms).