VA study shows high magnitude stressors stronger than military sexual stressors

Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 12:40 in Psychology & Sociology

A study of long-term, active duty military personnel who used Department of Veterans Affairs' health services showed that childhood maltreatment and other high magnitude stressors, such as being in a serious accident or a natural disaster, were more strongly associated with participants' current psychiatric symptoms than were their military sexual experiences, such as sexual harassment...

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