Factors Influencing Believing and Blaming in Reports of Child Sexual Abuse: Survey of a Community Sample
| Autor: | Miriam L. Rubin, Mark H. Thelen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Child abuse
medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject education humanities Pathology and Forensic Medicine Blame Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Sexual abuse Child sexual abuse Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Respondent medicine Girl Psychological abuse Psychology Psychiatry Socioeconomic status health care economics and organizations media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. 5:81-100 |
| ISSN: | 1547-0679 1053-8712 |
| DOI: | 10.1300/j070v05n02_05 |
| Popis: | Believing and blaming of alleged victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) was measured in a community sample of 202 adults. Subjects completed a questionnaire consisting of vignettes in which 11-year-old girls reported being sexually abused. A majority of respondents viewed the girl's report of sexual abuse as truthful; however, alleged victim retractions significantly reduced the credibility ratings for those reports. The effect of perpetrator socioeconomic status (SES) did not reach significance on either alleged victim believing or blaming. Females were significantly more likely than males to believe the girl's report of abuse, and more likely to believe children's reports in general. Females were significantly less likely than males to blame the girl for the occurrence of the abuse. Gender differences on believing and blaming remained significant when effects of respondent age and education were removed as covariates. Estimates of the prevalence of CSA varied widely, with no significant gender dif... |
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