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A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child
Sexual Abuse Using College Samples
Bruce Rind
Department of Psychology
Philip Tromovitch
Graduate School of Education
Robert Bauserman
Department of Psychology University of Michigan
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Abstract
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[Introduction]
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Previous Literature Reviews
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Qualitative Literature Reviews
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Causality
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Intensity
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Gender Equivalance
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Limitations of Qualitative Literature Reviews
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Sampling biases
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Subjectivity and imprecision
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Quantitative Literature Reviews
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Synthesis of Quantitative Reviews
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Causality
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Pervasiveness
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Intensity
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Gender Equivalence
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Current Review
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Method
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Sample of Studies
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Coding the Studies
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Psychological Correlates of CSA
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Statistical Analysis
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Results
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Definitions of CSA, Prevalence Rates, and Types of CSA
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Definitions
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Prevalence rates
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Types of CSA
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Magnitude of the Relationship Between CSA and
Psychological Adjustment
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Sample-level analysis
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Symptom-level analysis
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Moderator Analysis
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Contrast analyses
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Simple correlations
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Moderators concerning aspects of the CSA experience
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Self-reported Reactions to and Effects From CSA
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Retrospectively recalled immediate reactions
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Current reflexions
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Self-reported effects
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Comparing male versus female reactions and self-reported effects via
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Family Environment
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Family environment-CSA relations
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Family environment-symptom relations
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Statistical control
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Statistical validity
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Discussion
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The Four Assumed Properties of CSA Revisited
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Gender Equivalance
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Causality
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Pervasiveness and Intensity of Negative Effects or Correlates
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Moderators
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Child SexualAbuse as a
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Summary and Conclusion
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Appendix
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Many lay persons and professionals believe that child sexual abuse (CSA) causes
intense harm, regardless of gender, pervasively in the general population.
The authors
examined this belief by reviewing 59 studies based on college samples. Meta-analyses
revealed that students with CSA were, on average, slightly less well adjusted than
controls. However, this poorer adjustment could not be attributed to CSA because family
environment (FE) was consistently confounded with CSA, FE explained considerably more
adjustment variance than CSA, and CSA-adjustment relations generally became nonsignificant
when studies controlled for FE.
Self-reported reactions to and effects from CSA indicated
that negative effects were
neither pervasive nor typically intense, and that men reacted
much less negatively than women. The college data were completely consistent with data
from national samples. Basic beliefs about CSA in the general population were not
supported.
[The notes are originally placed at the same page they
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* Bruce Rind, Department of Psychology, temple University;
Philip Tromovitch, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania;
Robert Bauserman, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan.
We thank Ralph Rosnow for his meta-analytic advice and comments on an earlier draft
and Steve Wexler for his helpful comments.
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Bruce Rind,
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pensylvania 19122 [USA].
Electronic mail may be sent to rind@vm.temple.edu