Study subjects were 43 adult (age 18 or older) female victims of completed rape and 96 adult female nonvictims of completed rape, other sexual assault, aggravated assault, robbery, or burglary. All subjects were drawn from a sample of 391 adult women who had participated in a large study designed to determine the lifetime prevalence of several types of criminal victimization experiences. The assessment battery consisted of two structured interviews and four paper-and-pencil tests. The Mental Health Problem Interview involved a slight modification of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule, a structured interview designed to gather data. The only mental health problems examined for this study were major depressive episodes, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and sexual dysfunction. Of the 101 rape cases, husbands were assailants in 23.8 percent of the cases, and assailants were dates in 16.8 percent of the rape cases. There was no evidence to support the assumption that rape by a husband or boyfriend had less severe long-term psychological consequences than rape by a stranger. 4 tables and 18 references
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