TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - The Sexual Grooming Scale - Victim Version: the development and pilot testing of a measure to assess the nature and extent of child sexual grooming
JO  - Victims and offenders
A1  - Winters, Georgia M.
A1  - Jeglic, Elizabeth L.
SP  - 919
EP  - 940
VL  - 17
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1556-4886
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2021.1974994
ID  - ref1
ER  -