University at Buffalo, Research Institute on Addictions, 1021 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 2011 May;35(5):363-71. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.01.010.
Previous research suggests that women's early sexual victimization experiences may influence their parenting behaviors and increase the vulnerability of their children to being sexually victimized. The current study considered whether mother's sexual victimization experiences, in childhood and after age 14, were associated with the sexual victimization experiences reported by their adolescent daughters, and if so, whether these effects were mediated via parenting behaviors.
The proposed model was examined using a community sample of 913 mothers and their college-bound daughters, recruited by telephone at the time of the daughter's high school graduation. Daughters reported on their experiences of adolescent sexual victimization and perceptions of mothers' parenting in four domains: connectedness, communication effectiveness, monitoring, and approval of sex. Mothers provided self-reports of their lifetime experiences of sexual victimization.
Consistent with hypotheses, mothers' victimization was positively associated with their daughters' victimization. The effect of mothers' childhood sexual abuse was direct, whereas the effect of mothers' victimization after age 14 was mediated via daughters' perceptions of mothers' monitoring and greater approval of adolescent sexual activity. Comparison of the prevalence of specific victimization experiences indicated that mothers were more likely to report forcible rape over their lifetimes; however, daughters were more likely to report unwanted contact and incapacitated rape.
Findings suggest that even in a highly functional community sample, mothers' sexual victimization experiences are significantly associated with aspects of their parenting behavior and with their daughters' own experiences of adolescent sexual victimization.
先前的研究表明，女性早期的性受害经历可能会影响其育儿行为，并增加其子女遭受性侵害的脆弱性。本研究考虑了母亲在儿童期和 14 岁以后的性受害经历是否与她们十几岁女儿所报告的性受害经历有关，如果是，这些影响是否通过育儿行为来介导。
使用一个由 913 名母亲及其即将上大学的女儿组成的社区样本，通过女儿高中毕业时的电话招募，来检验所提出的模型。女儿报告了她们在青少年时期的性受害经历以及对母亲在四个领域的育儿行为的看法：亲密感、沟通有效性、监督和对性的认可。母亲则提供了她们一生中遭受性侵害的自我报告。
与假设一致，母亲的受害经历与女儿的受害经历呈正相关。母亲童年时期性虐待的影响是直接的，而母亲 14 岁以后遭受性侵害的影响则是通过女儿对母亲监督和对青少年性活动更认可的感知来介导的。对特定受害经历的流行率进行比较表明，母亲一生中更有可能报告被强迫强奸；然而，女儿更有可能报告非自愿接触和使能力丧失的强奸。
研究结果表明，即使在一个功能高度正常的社区样本中，母亲的性受害经历与她们的育儿行为方面以及女儿自身的青少年性受害经历有显著关联。
