The Role of Sexual Traumatic Experiences, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies, and Disclosure in somatic Symptoms of Abused adolescent girls

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of Traumatic experiences of sexual abuse, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and disclosure in explaining Somatic Symptoms of adolescent girls.

The method of the present study was correlation and statistical population of all students of 14-17 years in Tehran province in the academic year 97-98. By screening students with experience of sexual trauma, and eliminating the incomplete questionnaires273 students were ianalysis. For gathering data,Checklist of Traumatic Experiences of Nigent Huys and Wonder Hart & Kruger (2002), Cognitive emotion regulation strategies questionnaire Garnefsky et al. (2001), Grek's Mental Health Questionnaire (2015), Self-disclosure scale of Kun and Hessling (2003) were used and analyzed using multiple regression.

The results showed maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (with β = 0.441 and p <0.01), disclosure (β = -0.201 and p <0.01), adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (β = -0.117 and p <0.01), sexual traumatic experiences (β = 0.170, p <0.05), have the ability to predict Somatic symptoms.

The results showed that can be used to control Somatic Symptoms by Investigating the history of sexual abuse experiences, Managing Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies, and facilitating disclosure.