Revisiting the link between childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual aggression.
Adolescent
Adult
Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
/ psychology
Aggression
/ psychology
Antisocial Personality Disorder
/ psychology
Bullying
/ psychology
Child
Child Abuse
/ psychology
Child Abuse, Sexual
/ psychology
Coercion
Domestic Violence
/ psychology
Exposure to Violence
/ psychology
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Parents
/ psychology
Peer Group
Physical Abuse
/ psychology
Rape
/ psychology
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Childhood physical abuse
Childhood sexual abuse
Domestic violence
Emotional abuse
Rape
Sexual aggression
Sexual coercion
Sibling abuse
Journal
Child abuse & neglect
ISSN: 1873-7757
Titre abrégé: Child Abuse Negl
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7801702
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2019
08 2019
Historique:
received:
10
01
2019
revised:
04
04
2019
accepted:
21
05
2019
pubmed:
15
6
2019
medline:
23
6
2020
entrez:
15
6
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Childhood maltreatment poses a risk factor for adult sexual aggression among men. Efforts were made to examine links between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and sexual aggression after controlling variance associated with other forms of abuse. This sample was comprised of men (n = 489) who completed a national survey regarding their history of possible abuse and/or sexual aggression. Maltreatment indices included CSA, parental and sibling physical abuse, exposure to domestic violence, peer bullying, and family emotional abuse. Self-report indicators of sexual frotteurism, coercion and rape were provided by the Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Perpetration. CSA links with the criterion indicators were relatively stronger (r = 0.36, d = 0.65, p < .001) than those found for non-sexual forms of abuse. CSA accounted for unshared variance in sexual aggression with these effects magnified by the addition of parental physical abuse (d = 2.1) or exposure to domestic violence (d = 2.2). The relative risks of prior acts of rape were elevated by CSA (RR = 4.39, p < .001), parental physical abuse (RR = 3.85, p < 0.001), exposure to domestic violence (RR = 3.81, p < .001), or sibling physical abuse (RR = 2.56, p = 0.007). These risks of completed rape were higher as well among respondents polyvictimized by two (RR = 4.92, p < .001) or more (RR = 8.94, p < 0.001) forms of abuse. Multiple forms of child maltreatment, particularly CSA, were strongly associated with adult sexual aggression in this sample of men from the general population.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Childhood maltreatment poses a risk factor for adult sexual aggression among men.
OBJECTIVE
Efforts were made to examine links between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and sexual aggression after controlling variance associated with other forms of abuse.
PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING
This sample was comprised of men (n = 489) who completed a national survey regarding their history of possible abuse and/or sexual aggression.
METHODS
Maltreatment indices included CSA, parental and sibling physical abuse, exposure to domestic violence, peer bullying, and family emotional abuse. Self-report indicators of sexual frotteurism, coercion and rape were provided by the Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Perpetration.
RESULTS
CSA links with the criterion indicators were relatively stronger (r = 0.36, d = 0.65, p < .001) than those found for non-sexual forms of abuse. CSA accounted for unshared variance in sexual aggression with these effects magnified by the addition of parental physical abuse (d = 2.1) or exposure to domestic violence (d = 2.2). The relative risks of prior acts of rape were elevated by CSA (RR = 4.39, p < .001), parental physical abuse (RR = 3.85, p < 0.001), exposure to domestic violence (RR = 3.81, p < .001), or sibling physical abuse (RR = 2.56, p = 0.007). These risks of completed rape were higher as well among respondents polyvictimized by two (RR = 4.92, p < .001) or more (RR = 8.94, p < 0.001) forms of abuse.
CONCLUSIONS
Multiple forms of child maltreatment, particularly CSA, were strongly associated with adult sexual aggression in this sample of men from the general population.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31200261
pii: S0145-2134(19)30184-X
doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104022
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
104022Informations de copyright
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