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Correlates of Behavioral Outcomes in Sexually Abused Children

verfasst von: Martine Hébert, Caroline Tremblay, Nathalie Parent, Isabelle V. Daignault, Christiane Piché

Erschienen in: Journal of Family Violence | Ausgabe 5/2006

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Abstract

The present study attempted to identify individual and contextual factors associated with outcomes in a group of 63 latency-aged children disclosing sexual abuse (SA). Children reporting SA were found to display greater internalizing and externalizing behavioral difficulties as well as more sexualized behaviors relative to same-age non-abused peers. Mothers also reported these children as less socially competent than their peers. Family contextual factors appeared to be associated with behavioral difficulties and made a unique contribution to the prediction of externalizing and sexualized behaviors. Of the personal variables, avoidance coping was found to be linked to poorer outcomes. In examining possible factors linked to ‘resilient’ outcomes in a 6-month time-frame, family conflict and avoidance coping were found to be associated to clinical status in children reporting SA.

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Titel: Correlates of Behavioral Outcomes in Sexually Abused Children
verfasst von: Martine Hébert
Caroline Tremblay
Nathalie Parent
Isabelle V. Daignault
Christiane Piché
Publikationsdatum: 01.07.2006
Verlag: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Erschienen in: Journal of Family Violence / Ausgabe 5/2006
Print ISSN: 0885-7482
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2851
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-006-9026-2

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