Citation

Karp SA, Holmstrom RW, Silber DE, Stock LJ. Percept. Mot. Skills 1995; 81(3): 955-965.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8668460

Abstract

Previous studies of adult females reporting incestuous sexual abuse in childhood, using the Apperceptive Personality Test and Draw-a-Person Questionnaire, indicated abusees attributed more negative traits to their characters than did controls. No differences were found by type of abuse or relation to the abuser. In these studies abusees and controls were obtained from different sources, although matched on several characteristics. The present study compared 79 incestuous abusees to 79 matched controls all drawn from the same subject pool. Multivariate analysis of variance identified significant differences between the groups. In contrast with earlier studies questionnaire scores distinguished rape victims from those abused without rape and distinguished those abused by older relatives from those abused by peers in two additional multivariate analyses of variance.

Language: en