TY - JOUR
T1 - Childhood emotional abuse predicts late adolescent sexual aggression perpetration and victimization
AU - Zurbriggen, Eileen L.
AU - Gobin, Robyn L.
AU - Freyd, Jennifer J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Submitted 28 November 2008; revised 17 March 2009; accepted 4 December 2009. Data collection was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (MH071334) to Eileen L. Zurbriggen. Address correspondence to Eileen L. Zurbriggen, Department of Psychology, Room 277, Social Sciences 2, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. E-mail: [email protected]
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - Childhood physical and sexual abuse are known risk factors for adult sexual aggression perpetration and victimization, but less is known about the role played by childhood emotional abuse. College sophomores were surveyed regarding their childhood physical, sexual, and emotional abuse victimization and their late-adolescent experiences of sexual aggression victimization and perpetration. Controlling for social desirability and childhood physical and sexual abuse, childhood emotional abuse was the strongest predictor of adolescent sexual perpetration for women and the strongest predictor of adolescent sexual victimization for men. Emotional abuse was a marginally reliable predictor of adolescent sexual victimization in women. These results show the importance of childhood emotional abuse victimization as a risk factor for sexual victimization and perpetration in adolescent intimate relationships.
AB - Childhood physical and sexual abuse are known risk factors for adult sexual aggression perpetration and victimization, but less is known about the role played by childhood emotional abuse. College sophomores were surveyed regarding their childhood physical, sexual, and emotional abuse victimization and their late-adolescent experiences of sexual aggression victimization and perpetration. Controlling for social desirability and childhood physical and sexual abuse, childhood emotional abuse was the strongest predictor of adolescent sexual perpetration for women and the strongest predictor of adolescent sexual victimization for men. Emotional abuse was a marginally reliable predictor of adolescent sexual victimization in women. These results show the importance of childhood emotional abuse victimization as a risk factor for sexual victimization and perpetration in adolescent intimate relationships.
KW - Adolescent dating violence
KW - Cycle of violence
KW - Emotional abuse
KW - Physical abuse
KW - Revictimization
KW - Sexual abuse
KW - Sexual aggression
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U2 - 10.1080/10926770903539631
DO - 10.1080/10926770903539631
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77951249195
SN - 1092-6771
VL - 19
SP - 204
EP - 223
JO - Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
JF - Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
IS - 2
ER -