Schaaf K K, McCanne T R
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.
Child Abuse Negl. 1994 Aug;18(8):607-15. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(94)90011-6.
Studies have suggested that women who experience child sexual abuse are at risk for developing symptoms related to anorexia nervosa and bulimia. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships among childhood sexual and physical abuse, body image disturbance, and eating disorder symptomatology. Of 670 female college students screened for childhood abuse, 29 sexually abused, 32 physically abused, and 29 nonabused women completed measures of eating disorder symptoms, psychological factors thought to be related to eating disorders, and body image distortion. Contrary to previous reports, there was no evidence that child sexual or physical abuse was associated with the development of body image disturbance. Furthermore, the results did not support the hypothesis that child sexual and physical abuse are related to eating disorder symptomatology. It is suggested that subjects who are victims of child sexual abuse and who are receiving psychotherapy manifest higher rates of a number of different types of psychopathology, including eating disorders.
研究表明，遭受儿童性虐待的女性有出现与神经性厌食症和贪食症相关症状的风险。本研究的目的是检验儿童期性虐待和身体虐待、身体意象障碍与饮食失调症状之间的关系。在670名接受童年期虐待筛查的女大学生中，29名遭受性虐待、32名遭受身体虐待以及29名未受虐待的女性完成了饮食失调症状、被认为与饮食失调有关的心理因素以及身体意象扭曲的测量。与之前的报告相反，没有证据表明儿童期性虐待或身体虐待与身体意象障碍的发展有关。此外，研究结果不支持儿童期性虐待和身体虐待与饮食失调症状有关的假设。有人提出，遭受儿童期性虐待且正在接受心理治疗的受试者表现出多种不同类型精神病理学的较高发生率，包括饮食失调。
