Miller-Perrin C L, Wurtele S K, Kondrick P A
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-4830.
Child Abuse Negl. 1990;14(1):99-112. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(90)90085-8.
This study compared characteristics of abused and nonabused children's conceptions about personal body safety. A projective type vignette describing a personal body safety violation was read to 25 abused children entering a treatment program in eastern Washington and 25 nonabused children matched on sex, age, and grade in school. The children were asked questions about the vignette incident, and responses were compared between the abused and nonabused children. Significant differences were obtained between abused and nonabused children's conceptions of personal body safety with regard to their definitions of sexual abuse, descriptions of violators, and perceptions of consequences for the violator. Few significant differences were observed regarding conceptions of the victim, and no differences were observed on responses to two control vignettes depicting violations of traffic and school safety rules. Comparisons are made between both abused and nonabused children's understandings of the phenomenon. In addition, suggestions are offered for incorporating this information into sexual abuse prevention and treatment programs as well as future research.
本研究比较了受虐儿童和未受虐儿童对个人身体安全概念的特征。向25名进入华盛顿东部一个治疗项目的受虐儿童以及25名在性别、年龄和年级上与之匹配的未受虐儿童朗读了一段描述个人身体安全受到侵犯的投射式短文。询问孩子们关于短文中事件的问题，并比较受虐儿童和未受虐儿童的回答。在受虐儿童和未受虐儿童对个人身体安全的概念方面，在性虐待的定义、侵犯者的描述以及对侵犯者后果的认知上存在显著差异。在对受害者的概念方面几乎没有观察到显著差异，并且在对描述违反交通和学校安全规则的两个对照短文的回答上也没有观察到差异。对受虐儿童和未受虐儿童对该现象的理解进行了比较。此外，还就如何将这些信息纳入性虐待预防和治疗项目以及未来研究提出了建议。
