Defining the boundaries: social worker assessment of sexual abuse in a cultural context – multivariate analysis of personal and professional factors influencing social workers' labelling of intimacy behaviour

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Defining the boundaries: social worker assessment of sexual abuse in a cultural context – multivariate analysis of personal and professional factors influencing social workers' labelling of intimacy behaviour
Citation	Carstens CA. Child Fam. Soc. Work 2001; 6(4): 315-325.
Copyright	(Copyright © 2001, John Wiley and Sons)
DOI	10.1046/j.1365-2206.2001.00212.x
PMID	unavailable
Abstract	To explore personal and professional factors influencing social worker assessment of family intimacy behaviour in diverse cultural groups, a 27-item questionnaire was mailed to a random, stratified sample of MSW-level social workers. The instrument measured rank-order responses to 10 questions about attitudes towards public exposure to sexual stimuli and rank-order responses to questions about three vignettes depicting culturally informed family intimacy behaviour. The instrument also measured sample characteristics such as area of social work practice and per cent of caseload involving sexually abused as well as diverse clients. Completed questionnaires (n= 387) were analysed for association between respondents' definition of intimacy behaviour (dependent variable), attitude towards sexual stimuli, and intervening variables thought to explain variance in the dependent measure. Labelling theory provided a basis for hypotheses testing.