1 School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
2 Department of Education, Rees Centre for Research on Fostering and Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Child Maltreat. 2018 May;23(2):196-206. doi: 10.1177/1077559517734059. Epub 2017 Oct 15.
A large national sample of 4,775 reports of child physical and sexual abuse made in Israel in 2014 was analyzed in order to examine whether assessments of credibility would vary according to abuse type, physical or sexual, and whether child and event characteristics contributing to the probability that reports of abuse would be determined as credible would be similar or different in child physical abuse (CPA) and child sexual abuse (CSA) cases. Results revealed that CPA reports were less likely to be viewed as credible (41.9%) compared to CSA reports (56.7%). Multigroup path analysis, however, indicated equivalence in predicting factors. In a unified model for both types of abuse, salient predictors of a credible judgment were older age, lack of a cognitive delay, and the alleged abusive event being a onetime less severe act. Over and beyond the effects of these factors, abuse type significantly contributed to the prediction of credibility judgments.
对 2014 年在以色列进行的 4775 起儿童身体和性虐待报告的大型全国样本进行了分析，目的是检验可信度评估是否会因虐待类型（身体虐待或性虐待）而有所不同，以及导致虐待报告被认定为可信的儿童和事件特征在儿童身体虐待（CPA）和儿童性虐待（CSA）案件中是否相似或不同。结果表明，与 CSA 报告（56.7%）相比，CPA 报告被认为更不可信（41.9%）。然而，多组路径分析表明，预测因素具有等效性。在针对这两种类型的虐待的统一模型中，可信判断的显著预测因素是年龄较大、无认知障碍以及被指控的虐待行为是一次性较轻的行为。除了这些因素的影响外，虐待类型对可信度判断的预测也有显著贡献。
