Neglect, online invasive exploitation, and childhood sexual abuse in Hong Kong: Breaking the links.

Autor: Emery CR; Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: cemery@hku.hk., Wong PWC; Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: paulw@hku.hk., Haden-Pawlowski V; Save the Children Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Pui C; Save the Children Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: Cayla.Pui@savethechildren.org., Wong G; Save the Children Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: Grace.Wong@savethechildren.org., Kwok S; Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Liu AY; Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States., Abdullah A; College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Australia. Electronic address: alhassan.abdullah@flinders.edu.au.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child abuse & neglect [Child Abuse Negl] 2024 Jan; Vol. 147, pp. 106591. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 20.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106591
Abstrakt: Background: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a form of maltreatment that involves a child in sexual activity that she or he cannot fully comprehend or is unable to give informed consent to. The empirical link between child neglect and contact child sexual abuse is well established but little research examines mediators that explain this link.
Objective: This study tests online risk behaviors and unwanted sexual experiences online as sequential mediators of the neglect - CSA relationship.
Participant and Setting: The study uses a representative cross-sectional sample of 1097 Hong Kong adolescents.
Methods: Preacher and Hayes' (2008) non-parametric bootstrap approach was used to test three mediation hypotheses.
Results: Baseline logistic regression models showed neglected children had 11.2 times higher odds of reporting contact CSA (p < .001). Similarly, neglect was associated with 3.5 times higher odds of more online risk behavior (p < .001), which in turn was associated with 2.7 times higher odds of more online invasive exploitation (p < .001). Online invasive exploitation was associated with 2.7 times higher odds of reporting offline contact CSA (p < .001). The study found online risk behaviors to be a significant mediator of the relationship between neglect and online invasive exploitation (unwanted online sexual experiences). Online invasive exploitation, in turn, mediated the relationship between online risk behaviors and offline contact CSA.
Conclusion: The findings highlight the importance of intervening against neglect as it appears to play a vital role in the etiology of contact CSA in Hong Kong.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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