@article{ref1,
title="Revisiting the link between childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual aggression",
journal="Child abuse and neglect",
year="2019",
author="King, Alan R. and Kuhn, Sara K. and Strege, Chassidy and Russell, Tiffany D. and Kolander, Tyler",
volume="94",
number="",
pages="e104022-e104022",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Childhood maltreatment poses a risk factor for adult sexual aggression among men. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: Efforts were made to examine links between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and sexual aggression after controlling variance associated with other forms of abuse. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: This sample was comprised of men (n = 489) who completed a national survey regarding their history of possible abuse and/or sexual aggression. <br><br>METHODS: Maltreatment indices included CSA, parental and sibling physical abuse, exposure to domestic violence, peer bullying, and family emotional abuse. Self-report indicators of sexual frotteurism, coercion and rape were provided by the Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Perpetration. <br><br>RESULTS: CSA links with the criterion indicators were relatively stronger (r = 0.36, d = 0.65, p < .001) than those found for non-sexual forms of abuse. CSA accounted for unshared variance in sexual aggression with these effects magnified by the addition of parental physical abuse (d = 2.1) or exposure to domestic violence (d = 2.2). The relative risks of prior acts of rape were elevated by CSA (RR = 4.39, p < .001), parental physical abuse (RR = 3.85, p < 0.001), exposure to domestic violence (RR = 3.81, p < .001), or sibling physical abuse (RR = 2.56, p = 0.007). These risks of completed rape were higher as well among respondents polyvictimized by two (RR = 4.92, p < .001) or more (RR = 8.94, p < 0.001) forms of abuse. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Multiple forms of child maltreatment, particularly CSA, were strongly associated with adult sexual aggression in this sample of men from the general population.<br><br>Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0145-2134",
doi="10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104022",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104022"
}