University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
J Child Sex Abus. 2022 May-Jun;31(4):393-411. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2022.2080142. Epub 2022 May 29.
The Catholic Church has faced a large number of complaints against its representatives for sexual crimes that involved children and adolescents as victims. The objective of this study was to characterize the dynamics of this type of event, its characteristics, and its effects in terms of mental health and social consequences, as well as the spiritual damage generated. The sample comprised 182 victims from Spain and Chile, divided into three mutually exclusive groups ( = 40 committed by a representative of the Catholic Church; = 85 by a family member; = 57 by a perpetrator outside the family and the Church). The results show that victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) by a representative of the Catholic Church and other perpetrators are similar in many respects (e.g., religiosity, characteristics of the abuse, and mental health and social problems), but that the effects on religiosity are more serious for victims of the clergy, affecting their belief in God. Finally, the extreme decline in belief in God, due to CSA, is an important predictor for most mental health and social problems. Our results show the need to include the Catholic identity, faith and spirituality in the therapeutic context.
天主教会面临着大量针对其代表的性侵犯罪行的投诉，这些罪行的受害者是儿童和青少年。本研究的目的是描述这类事件的动态、特征及其对心理健康和社会后果的影响，以及所产生的精神伤害。样本包括来自西班牙和智利的 182 名受害者，分为三个互斥的组（= 40 名由天主教会代表犯下；= 85 名由家庭成员犯下；= 57 名由家庭和教会之外的施害者犯下）。结果表明，天主教会代表和其他施害者对儿童性虐待（CSA）的受害者在许多方面相似（例如，宗教信仰、虐待的特征以及心理健康和社会问题），但神职人员对宗教信仰的影响更为严重，影响到他们对上帝的信仰。最后，由于 CSA 而对上帝的极端信仰下降是大多数心理健康和社会问题的重要预测指标。我们的研究结果表明，需要在治疗环境中纳入天主教身份、信仰和灵性。
