Sandnabba N Kenneth, Santtila Pekka, Wannäs Malin, Krook Katja
Department of Psychology, Abo Akademi University, 20500 Turku, Finland.
Child Abuse Negl. 2003 Jun;27(6):579-605. doi: 10.1016/s0145-2134(03)00102-9.
The purpose of the present research was to explore the sexual behaviors of 2- to 7-year-old children through reports of day-care personnel. An overall aim of this exploratory study was to provide information about the frequencies of child sexual behaviors. Also, the aim was to explore any age and gender differences.
A representative sample of 364 Finnish children not screened for developmental delay, sexual abuse history or psychiatric problems (181 girls and 183 boys) in 190 day-care centers were studied using the "Day-Care Sexuality Questionnaire" (DCSQ), with 244 sexual and other behavior items.
Age influenced more the extent of the 244 sexual behaviors of boys than of girls. In sexual behaviors increasing with age, girls showed behaviors with a more social character, whereas boys showed more explorative and information-seeking behaviors. Girls had a higher frequency of domestic and gender role exploring behaviors, whereas the boys tended to engage in explorative acting and information-seeking behaviors.
The results suggest that child sexual behavior reported by day-care personnel may provide useful information about the development of children's sexuality. Implications for sexual abuse investigations were discussed.
本研究旨在通过日托工作人员的报告来探究2至7岁儿童的性行为。这项探索性研究的总体目标是提供有关儿童性行为频率的信息。此外，目标还包括探究年龄和性别差异。
采用“日托性行为问卷”（DCSQ），对芬兰190个日托中心的364名未接受发育迟缓、性虐待史或精神问题筛查的儿童（181名女孩和183名男孩）进行了研究，该问卷包含244项性行为及其他行为项目。
年龄对男孩244种性行为程度的影响大于女孩。在随年龄增长的性行为中，女孩表现出更具社交性质的行为，而男孩则表现出更多探索性和寻求信息的行为。女孩在家庭和性别角色探索行为方面频率较高，而男孩则倾向于进行探索性表演和寻求信息的行为。
结果表明，日托工作人员报告的儿童性行为可能为儿童性发育提供有用信息。讨论了对性虐待调查的影响。
