Adolescents’ experiences of sexual abuse Prevalence, abuse characteristics, disclosure, health and ethical aspects.
- Document number
- 2333
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Adolescents’ experiences of sexual abuse Prevalence, abuse characteristics, disclosure, health and ethical aspects.
- Author/publisher
- Gisela Priebe
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Sex tourism, Pornography, Prostitution; Sex work; Unionisation of sex workers; Clients, Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism,
- Summary
- The purpose of this thesis was to investigate aspects of self-reported sexual abuse during childhood and adolescence in a population-based study of Swedish high school students. The aim of this thesis was first to investigate the lifetime prevalence of sexual abuse of varying severity and characteristics as well as the associations between sexual abuse, gender, socio-demographic characteristics and consensual sexual experiences. The next aim was to investigate disclosure rates and disclosure patterns as well as predictors of non-disclosure. A further aim was to study the associations between sexual abuse and different aspects of psychosocial health. One of the measures of psychosocial health used in the study was the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and a further aim of the thesis was to examine its psychometric properties when used with young people at age 17 – 19 years. Finally, it was an aim of this thesis to highlight ethical aspects of research about sexual abuse by investigating vulnerable participants’ experience with the survey.
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