Cohen J A, Mannarino A P
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Child Abuse Negl. 1988;12(4):571-7. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(88)90074-9.
This study examined psychological symptoms exhibited by children who had recently been sexually abused. Twenty-four girls aged 6 to 12 years old were evaluated within six months of being abused using a variety of standardized child psychiatric instruments. Results showed a marked discrepancy between child and parent reports of symptoms. The abused children did not exhibit significant depressive, anxiety, or low self-esteem symptoms by self-report; however, their parents rated them as having significantly more behavioral problems than a normative sample but as somewhat less pathological than a clinical sample. The implications of these findings in relation to our current understanding of the psychological problems manifested by sexually abused children and for future research are discussed.
本研究调查了近期遭受性虐待的儿童所表现出的心理症状。24名年龄在6至12岁的女孩在遭受虐待后的六个月内，使用多种标准化儿童精神科工具进行了评估。结果显示，儿童与家长对症状的报告存在显著差异。受虐儿童自我报告未表现出明显的抑郁、焦虑或自卑症状；然而，他们的父母认为他们的行为问题比正常样本显著更多，但比临床样本的病态程度稍低。讨论了这些发现对于我们目前对性虐待儿童所表现出的心理问题的理解以及对未来研究的意义。
