Carey T C, Kempton T L, Gemmill W D
Medical College of Ohio, Department of Pediatrics, Toledo 43699.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 1996 Winter;27(2):115-24. doi: 10.1007/BF02353805.
This study examined emotions and internalizing symptoms in sexually abused females. Children seen for outpatient evaluation for sexual abuse were compared to a normative sample on measures of emotional expression, anxiety and depression. The outpatient sample reported higher levels of emotions, lower levels of depression and statistically lower levels of anxiety as compared to non-abused peers. The outpatients also were compared to two inpatient samples: inpatient with no history of abuse, and inpatient with a history of abuse. Results are discussed in terms of the need to find different ways to assess emotional adjustment of sexually abused children.
本研究调查了遭受性虐待女性的情绪和内化症状。将因性虐待接受门诊评估的儿童与一个正常样本在情绪表达、焦虑和抑郁测量方面进行比较。与未受虐待的同龄人相比，门诊样本报告的情绪水平较高，抑郁水平较低，焦虑水平在统计学上也较低。门诊患者还与两个住院样本进行了比较：无虐待史的住院患者和有虐待史的住院患者。根据需要找到不同方法来评估遭受性虐待儿童的情绪适应情况对结果进行了讨论。
