Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
East Michigan University, MI, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2023 Feb;38(3-4):3806-3830. doi: 10.1177/08862605221111411. Epub 2022 Jul 22.
Childhood maltreatment increases risk for sexual and physical revictimization in adulthood. The goal of the current study was to examine whether this risk is associated with specific maltreatment types (i.e., sexual vs. physical vs. emotional maltreatment vs. neglect) and perpetrators (i.e., mother vs. father). Participants included 720 adult women from North America and the United Kingdom, recruited through the online platform Prolific Academic. The severity of childhood maltreatment and adult physical and sexual victimization were assessed in two separate sessions through self-report questionnaires. All maltreatment types were modeled together to account for their co-occurrence. Greater severity of sexual maltreatment was significantly and independently associated with greater risk for sexual, physical, and sexual + physical revictimization. Further, in the full sample, risk of revictimization was predicted by greater severity of father-perpetrated emotional and physical maltreatment. In contrast, in subgroup analyses focusing on plurisexual (i.e., bi/pansexual) women, risk of revictimization was predicted by greater severity of mother-perpetrated emotional and physical maltreatment. These results suggest that girls with sexual and emotional maltreatment histories are at highest risk for revictimization. Future research identifying the biological, psychological, and social sequelae of these specific exposures may enable the development of specific intervention programs that have the potential for maximum efficacy in preventing further violence against women most at risk.
儿童虐待会增加成年后遭受性和身体再次伤害的风险。本研究的目的是检验这种风险是否与特定的虐待类型（即性虐待、身体虐待、情感虐待和忽视）和施虐者（即母亲、父亲）有关。参与者包括来自北美和英国的 720 名成年女性，通过在线平台 Prolific Academic 招募。通过自我报告问卷，在两次单独的会议中评估了儿童期虐待的严重程度以及成年后的身体和性受虐情况。所有的虐待类型都被同时建模，以考虑它们的共同发生。性虐待的严重程度越高，性、身体和性+身体再次受虐的风险就越大。此外，在全样本中，父亲实施的情感和身体虐待的严重程度与再次受虐的风险相关。相比之下，在专注于多性恋（即双性恋/泛性恋）女性的亚组分析中，再次受虐的风险与母亲实施的情感和身体虐待的严重程度相关。这些结果表明，有性虐待和情感虐待史的女孩面临最高的再次受虐风险。未来的研究确定这些特定暴露的生物、心理和社会后果，可能会开发出具有最大预防针对最易受伤害的妇女的进一步暴力的干预计划。
