Citation

Krugman S, Mata L, Krugman R. Pediatrics 1992; 90(1 Pt 2): 157-161.

Affiliation

Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud, University of Costa Rica, San José.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Academy of Pediatrics)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1603642

Abstract

A sample of 497 students at the University of Costa Rica completed a survey on perceptions and experiences with various forms of punishment and experiences with sexual abuse during childhood. Spanking was shown to be the most widely accepted and most common form of discipline. The majority of the students considered most types of punishment forms of abuse. This study lacks a comparison group and cannot be generalized to the entire Costa Rican population. The section on sexual abuse demonstrated that 32% of the women and 13% of the men experienced some type of sexual abuse during childhood. The abuse mainly occurred between the ages of 5 and 10, and men were most often perpetrators.

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