Hong Minha, Kim Hyun-Soo, Kim Kyoung-Hoon, Koh Jiali Emily, Han Changwoo, Lee Seunghoon, Ryu Jin Sun, Lee Ah Rah, Lee Sang Min
Department of Psychiatry, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Department of Psychiatry, Myongji Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
Psychiatry Investig. 2025 Jun;22(6):660-667. doi: 10.30773/pi.2024.0381. Epub 2025 Jun 16.
Sexual violence against children and adolescents is a serious social problem. The characteristics of child and adolescent victims differ based on their varying developmental processes. Therefore, we conducted a comparative analysis to assess the same.
Data were collected from victims of sexual violence between 2015 and 2022, from a Sunflower Center, which is a government-sponsored center for victims of sexual violence. The participants were classified into two groups: children under age 12 and adolescents over age 13 years. To compare and analyze data, we collected demographic information, information related to victimization events, and scores on the Children's Depression Inventory, Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, and Children's Revised Impact of Event Scale. A descriptive analysis, χ 2 test, Fisher's exact test, and multiple logistic regression analysis were performed.
Among 255 participants, 95 and 160 were children and adolescents, respectively. The percentage of forced molestation was significantly higher in children at 71.6% (n=68, p<0.001). Children included significantly more male participants (14.7%, n=14, p=0.007) than adolescents. Significant differences were observed between children and adolescents' depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress scores (p<0.001). Compared with children, adolescents demonstrated an adjusted odds ratio of 2.9 for high post-traumatic stress symptoms, 2.26 for high depressive symptoms, and 3.0 for high anxiety symptoms.
We identified differences in the characteristics of sexual violence victims, particularly children and adolescents, and found that adolescent victims were more vulnerable to the psychological repercussions of abuse than child victims.
针对儿童和青少年的性暴力是一个严重的社会问题。儿童和青少年受害者的特征因其不同的发育过程而有所不同。因此，我们进行了一项比较分析以对此进行评估。
数据收集自2015年至2022年间性暴力受害者，来自向日葵中心，这是一个由政府资助的性暴力受害者中心。参与者被分为两组：12岁以下儿童和13岁以上青少年。为了比较和分析数据，我们收集了人口统计学信息、与受害事件相关的信息以及儿童抑郁量表、修订版儿童显性焦虑量表和儿童修订版事件影响量表的得分。进行了描述性分析、χ²检验、费舍尔精确检验和多元逻辑回归分析。
在255名参与者中，分别有95名儿童和160名青少年。儿童中强迫猥亵的比例显著更高，为71.6%（n = 68，p < 0.001）。儿童中的男性参与者（14.7%，n = 14，p = 0.007）明显多于青少年。儿童和青少年在抑郁、焦虑和创伤后应激得分方面存在显著差异（p < 0.001）。与儿童相比，青少年出现高创伤后应激症状的调整比值比为2.9，高抑郁症状为2.26，高焦虑症状为3.0。
我们确定了性暴力受害者，特别是儿童和青少年的特征差异，并发现青少年受害者比儿童受害者更容易受到虐待的心理影响。
