Sexual assaults against women are prevalent, and have been associated with a range of negative mental health outcomes. However, mental health is also affected by contextual factors, including material hardship (i.e., food insecurity, housing insecurity, and financial barriers to medical care). Thus, the present study investigated the extent to which sexual assault and material hardship interact and are associated with depression, substance use problems, PTSD, and flourishing. Data was collected from 428 women on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk). The majority (78.8%) of women reported an experience of sexual assault in adulthood. Sexual assault and material hardship were both independently associated with psychological distress, but material hardship did not moderate the relation between sexual assault and psychological distress. The high rate of sexual assault seen in this sample demonstrates the necessity of understanding relevant psychological distress symptoms in populations experiencing material hardship, as it informs strategies for therapeutic intervention.
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机译：针对女性的性侵犯很普遍，并且与一系列负面的心理健康结果有关。然而，心理健康也受到环境因素的影响，包括物质困难（即粮食不安全、住房不安全和医疗保健的经济障碍）。因此，本研究调查了性侵犯和物质困难相互作用的程度，并与抑郁症、物质使用问题、创伤后应激障碍和繁荣相关。数据是从亚马逊的 Mechanical Turk （MTurk） 上的 428 名女性那里收集的。大多数 （78.8%） 女性报告在成年后有过性侵犯的经历。性侵犯和物质困难都与心理困扰独立相关，但物质困难并未调节性侵犯与心理困扰之间的关系。该样本中的高性侵犯率表明有必要了解经历物质困难的人群的相关心理困扰症状，因为它为治疗干预策略提供了信息。
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