Citation

Friedrich WN, Fisher JL, Dittner CA, Acton R, Berliner L, Butler J, Damon L, Davies WH, Gray A, Wright J. Child Maltreat. 2001; 6(1): 37-49.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. friedrich.william@mayo.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11217169

Abstract

A normative sample of 1,114 children was contrasted with a sample of 620 sexually abused children and 577 psychiatric outpatients on the Child Sexual Behavior Inventory (CSBI), a 38-item behavior checklist assessing sexual behavior in children 2 to 12 years old. The CSBI total score and each individual item differed significantly between the three groups after controlling for age, sex, maternal education, and family income. Sexually abused children exhibited a greater frequency of sexual behaviors than either the normative or psychiatric outpatient samples. Test-retest reliability and interitem correlation were satisfactory. Sexual behavior problems were related to other generic behavior problems. This contributed to the reduced discrimination between psychiatric outpatients and sexually abused children when compared to the normative/sexually abused discrimination.

Language: en