Davies S L, Glaser D, Kossoff R
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Brookside Family Consultation Clinic, Cambridge, England.
Child Abuse Negl. 2000 Oct;24(10):1329-43. doi: 10.1016/s0145-2134(00)00184-8.
The aims of this study were to learn about the nature, frequency, and patterns of young children's observed sexual play and behavior in pre-school settings, and staff responses to them.
Fifty eight staff in 11 pre-school settings were interviewed and data obtained about their recall of observed sexualized play and behaviors of children in their care. Responses were sought both to an open question and to 20 different hypothetical scenarios describing children's behaviors with a genital or sexual content. They were asked about the proportion of children observed and the frequency of the behaviors. They were also asked for their predicted responses to encountering each of these scenarios.
Children's curiosity about genitalia, looking and limited touching were more commonly observed, and drawing or modeling of genitalia and simulating sexual intercourse were also reported. Children inserting anything into another child and oral-genital contact had only rarely been observed. Rare behaviors always caused concern and led to some intervention. Concern about the more common behaviors was related to additional factors such as frequency, manner and talk accompanying the behavior and to other information known about the child.
The results confirm findings from studies in other countries about the reported prevalence of more and less commonly observed sexual and genitally orientated behaviors in young children. They lend justification for concerns about children showing rarely observed behaviors or showing preoccupation with genitalia and indicate the need for a search for an explanation of these behaviors when observed.
本研究旨在了解幼儿在学前教育机构中被观察到的性游戏和行为的性质、频率及模式，以及工作人员对这些行为的反应。
对11所学前教育机构的58名工作人员进行了访谈，获取了他们对所照顾儿童中被观察到的性化游戏和行为的回忆信息。针对一个开放性问题以及20种描述儿童涉及生殖器或性内容行为的不同假设情景收集了他们的回答。询问了他们观察到的儿童比例以及行为的频率。还询问了他们对遇到每种情景时的预期反应。
更常观察到儿童对生殖器的好奇、注视和有限的触摸，也有报告称存在对生殖器的绘画或塑造以及模拟性交行为。很少观察到儿童将任何东西插入另一个儿童体内以及口交行为。罕见行为总是引起关注并导致一些干预。对更常见行为的关注与其他因素有关，如行为的频率、方式、伴随行为的言语以及关于该儿童的其他已知信息。
研究结果证实了其他国家关于幼儿中报告的常见和不常见的性及以生殖器为导向行为的流行率的研究发现。这些结果为对表现出罕见行为或对生殖器过度关注的儿童的担忧提供了依据，并表明在观察到这些行为时需要寻求对其进行解释。
