The study investigates memory recall of documented child sexual abuse (CSA) in adults, addressing the repressed-memory controversy. It finds that a majority of participants with documented CSA histories reported the abuse, challenging the notion that traumatic memories are often repressed. Factors such as age at the end of abuse, maternal support, and abuse severity were significant predictors of disclosure. The study suggests that normal cognitive processes, rather than special memory mechanisms, underlie long-term memory for CSA.
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