Haywood T W, Kravitz H M, Grossman L S, Wasyliw O E, Hardy D W
Isaac Ray Center, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 1996 Jun;20(6):527-36. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(96)00034-8.
Cleric sexual misconduct with minors is a problem receiving increased attention from the media, victims groups, and church authorities. Mental health professionals are increasingly being asked to assist church and civil authorities to help better understand the problem of cleric sexual misconduct with minors. In the current study we compared self-reported sexual functioning among cleric alleged child molesters, noncleric alleged child molesters, and normal control subjects. We hypothesized clerics would differ from nonclerics and normals in reported sexual functioning. Our sample included 30 Roman Catholic clerics and 39 nonclerics who were alleged to have engaged in sexual misconduct with minors, and 38 normal control subjects, all of whom took the Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory (DSFI) as part of their forensic psychiatric evaluation. Our results indicated clerics were more likely to report fewer victims, older victims, and victims of male gender than noncleric alleged child molesters. Clerics differed from nonclerics and normal control subjects on several dimensions of self-reported sexual functioning. Lower offense rate histories among clerics suggest that, as a group, clerics may be less seriously psychologically disordered than noncleric child molesters. Low DSFI scores among Roman Catholic clerics may be accounted for in part by their unique training and socialization process. Future studies should attempt to study the influence of social desirability on DSFI scores. Normative data from nonoffending celibate clergy are needed.
神职人员与未成年人的性不当行为是一个受到媒体、受害者团体和教会当局越来越多关注的问题。心理健康专业人员越来越多地被要求协助教会和民事当局，以更好地理解神职人员与未成年人的性不当行为问题。在当前的研究中，我们比较了被指控的神职人员儿童性侵犯者、被指控的非神职人员儿童性侵犯者和正常对照受试者的自我报告性功能。我们假设神职人员在报告的性功能方面与非神职人员和正常人会有所不同。我们的样本包括30名罗马天主教神职人员和39名被指控与未成年人有性不当行为的非神职人员，以及38名正常对照受试者，他们都将德罗加蒂斯性功能量表（DSFI）作为法医精神病学评估的一部分。我们的结果表明，与被指控的非神职人员儿童性侵犯者相比，神职人员更有可能报告较少的受害者、年龄较大的受害者以及男性受害者。在自我报告性功能的几个维度上，神职人员与非神职人员和正常对照受试者有所不同。神职人员较低的犯罪率历史表明，作为一个群体，神职人员的心理障碍可能不如非神职人员儿童性侵犯者严重。罗马天主教神职人员较低的DSFI分数可能部分归因于他们独特的培训和社会化过程。未来的研究应该尝试研究社会期望对DSFI分数的影响。需要来自无犯罪记录的独身神职人员的规范数据。
