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Maternal Perceptions Of And Responses To Child Sexual Abuse Cover

Maternal Perceptions Of And Responses To Child Sexual Abuse

Open Access
|Feb 2016

Figures & Tables

Table 1

The basic characteristics of the CSA victims (N=73).

Victim’s agerange = 4-15 yearsM±SD = 11.5 ±2.79
Victim’s learning capacityf%
Appropriate6283.6
Learning difficulties1216.4
Victim’s living environmentf%
Step-father family2534.2
Normal functional family2027.4
Dis-functional family1419.2
Single-parent family1419.2
Offender of CSAf%
Intra-familial abuser4561.6
Incestuous abuser1926
Relative, close family friend1419.2
Incest1216.4
Extra familial abuser2838.4

f= frequency; %= percentage; M=mean; SD=Standard Deviation

Table 2

The delay of CSA victims’ disclosure.

Latency (month/year)f%M±SD = 3.43±5.34
Immediately report1115.010±0
1-12 months2635.620.4±0.35
1-6 year2534.253.4±1.35
7-25 years1115.0114.1±6.28
Type of CSAf%Delay M±SD (year)
Extra-familial type2838.41.9±5.18
Intra-familial type1419.23±4.15
Incest and incestuous type3142.55±5.65
The trustworthy personf%
Mother2635.6
Professionals at school2230.1
Schoolfellow/friend1013.7
Familial member1013
Boyfriend57
Maternal response/disclosuref%Delay M±SD (year)
Support3547.90.75±1.11
Ambivalence2432.96.93± 7.82
Resistance1419.23.65± 2.13
No support3852.1

f= frequency; %= percentage; M=mean; SD=Standard Deviation

Table 3

The venue of CSA occurrence and the victim’s choice of a trustworthy person.

Victim’s choice of a trustworthy person
MotherOther person
f%f%
Extra-familial type1553.61346.4
Intra-familial type1124.43475.6

f= frequency; %=percentages

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjph-2016-0017 | Journal eISSN: 1854-2476 | Journal ISSN: 0351-0026
Language: English, Slovenian
Page range: 124 - 130
Submitted on: May 12, 2015
Accepted on: Dec 3, 2015
Published on: Feb 11, 2016
Published by: National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2016 Zlatka Rakovec-Felser, Lea Vidovič, published by National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
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