Childhood Sexual Abuse, Other Childhood Factors, and Pathways to Survivors’ Adult Relationship Quality

The Anger Expression Patterns and Early Abuse Experiences in Turkish Male Sex Offenders

“…26 Additionally, it is speculated that sexual abuse in childhood may prevent the individuals from developing a healthy concept of sexuality. 7,47 However, when the results of the current study are considered together with the literature, the conclusion of a stronger relationship between childhood adverse experiences in general and the sexual crime is coming forward instead of the influence of the sexual abuse experience on sexual aggression in particular. 25,28 In their research, Salter and his colleagues found that not just sexual abuse but other early life experiences may increase the probability of sexual offence in adulthood.…”

“…45,46 For this reason, various studies were conducted to find out the personality characteristics, basic motivations, socio-demographic characteristics, family structures, anger and aggression levels, self-respect levels, psychiatric properties, childhood abuse experiences and empathy levels of sexual offenders. 6,[23][24][25][26]29,30,47 By using data from various studies, profiles have been created that reveal the basic characteristics of sexual offenders. 30,[48][49][50][51] Not just their psychopathological characteristics, but also understanding these people's personality characteristics and the difficulties they have because of these peculiarities gain importance especially to communicate better with them and to prepare some interventions.…”

Reliability and Factor Structure of the Psychological Maltreatment and Neglect Scales of the Computer Assisted Maltreatment Inventory (CAMI)

“…As noted earlier, recent research highlights the importance of considering adult victims' perceptions of early abuse experiences in predicting outcomes such as current functioning (Walker et al, 2009). Nevertheless, it has been suggested that for some types of maltreatment the duration, frequency, nature of acts, and perpetrator information greatly impacts outcomes (Claussen & Crittenden, 1991;Futa, Nash, Hansen, & Garbin, 2003).…”

“…This approach is useful for estimating overall prevalence and avoids some of the obstacles involved in a prospective, longitudinal study of children suffering abuse by their caregivers (Baker, 2009;Kendall-Tackett & Becker-Blease, 2004). Further, although retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment might, in part, reflect respondents' subjective perceptions of the early family environment, these perceptions might also be key mediators between negative childhood experiences and adult functioning (Walker, Holman, & Busby, 2009). Consistent with this notion, some data indicate that selfreport measures of maltreatment are more predictive of current functioning than the use of Child Protective Services (CPS) and court records to identify child maltreatment victims (McGee, Wolfe, Yuen, Wilson, & Carnochan, 1995).…”

Non-offending mothers of sexually abused children: How they decide whom to believe

“…To understand the role of childhood sexual abuse and other negative childhood experiences on adult relationship quality, researchers analyzed cross-sectional data of over 15,000 individuals in marital or cohabiting relationships (Walker, Holman, & Busby, 2009). The data came from the RELATionship Evaluation (RELATE), gathered on-line between 1999 and 2007.…”