Commending rather than condemning: Moral elevation and stigma for male veterans with military sexual trauma

BMC Psychology

Table 1 Baseline characteristics as predictors of state elevation response to male MST disclosure

Variable	β (SE)	p
Gender	− 0.03 (0.15)	.866
Age	− 0.01 (0.01)	.062
Trait elevation	0.34 (0.07)	< .001
Trait empathy	0.08 (0.07)	.211
PTSD symptoms	0.17 (0.05)	.002
Male rape myth beliefs	− 0.02 (0.06)	.688
Known sexual assault survivor	− 0.19 (0.11)	.101

Model summary statistics: F_{(7, 283)} = 8.68, p < .001, R² = .18. Boldface indicates statistical significance at p < .05.

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