@article{ref1,
title="The Sexual Grooming Scale - Victim Version: the development and pilot testing of a measure to assess the nature and extent of child sexual grooming",
journal="Victims and offenders",
year="2022",
author="Winters, Georgia M. and Jeglic, Elizabeth L.",
volume="17",
number="6",
pages="919-940",
abstract="Sexual grooming has been deemed an integral component of child sexual abuse (CSA). However, the nature and extent of sexual grooming remains understudied in large part because an empirically-validated scale for child sexual grooming has yet to be developed. We developed the Sexual Grooming Scale - Victim Version (SGS-V) to assess the stages and behaviors described in the content-validated Sexual Grooming Model from a victim's perspective. The SGS-V was pilot tested with 115 adult victims of CSA. Overall, results supported the feasibility in terms of implementation and its limited-efficacy. The implications for prevention, investigation, treatment, and research are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1556-4886",
doi="10.1080/15564886.2021.1974994",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2021.1974994"
}