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11097070
TITLE
Childhood sexual abuse and pathogenic parenting in the childhood recollections of adult twin pairs.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND NlmCategory: BACKGROUND
We examined the relationship between childhood sexual abuse (CSA), and interviewees' recollections of pathogenic parenting, testing for possible retrospective biases in the recollections of those who have experienced CSA.
METHODS NlmCategory: METHODS
Information about CSA, parental divorce and interviewees' recollections of parental rejection, parental overprotection and perceived autonomy (as assessed through a shortened version of the Parental Bonding Instrument) was obtained through telephone interviews with 3626 Australian twins who had also returned self-report questionnaires several years earlier. Recollections of parental behaviours were compared for individuals from pairs in which neither twin, at least one twin, or both twins reported CSA.
RESULTS NlmCategory: RESULTS
Significant associations were noted between CSA and paternal alcoholism and between CSA and recollections of parental rejection. For women, individuals from CSA-discordant pairs reported levels of parental rejection that were significantly higher than those obtained from CSA-negative pairs. The levels of parental rejection observed for twins from CSA-discordant pairs did not differ significantly from those obtained from CSA-concordant pairs, regardless of respondent's abuse status. For men from CSA-discordant pairs, respondents reporting CSA displayed a tendency to report higher levels of parental rejection than did respondents not reporting CSA. Other measures of parenting behaviour (perceived autonomy and parental overprotection) failed to show a clear relationship with CSA.
CONCLUSIONS NlmCategory: CONCLUSIONS
The relationship between CSA and respondents' recollections of parental rejection is not due solely to retrospective bias on the part of abused individuals and, consistent with other studies, may reflect a pathological family environment with serious consequences for all siblings.
DATE PUBLISHED
2000 Nov
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 2000/11/30 11:00
medline 2001/03/03 10:01
entrez 2000/11/30 11:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
McLaughlin TL McLaughlin T L TL Missouri Alcoholism Research Center at Washington University, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis 63108, USA.
Heath AC Heath A C AC
Bucholz KK Bucholz K K KK
Madden PA Madden P A PA
Bierut LJ Bierut L J LJ
Slutske WS Slutske W S WS
Dinwiddie S Dinwiddie S S
Statham DJ Statham D J DJ
Dunne MP Dunne M P MP
Martin NG Martin N G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 30
ISSUE: 6
TITLE: Psychological medicine
ISOABBREVIATION: Psychol Med
YEAR: 2000
MONTH: Nov
DAY:
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CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0033-2917
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Psychol Med
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 0033-2917
NLMUNIQUEID: 1254142
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
AA07535 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA07728 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA10249 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
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MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Australia
Child
Child Abuse, Sexual psychology
Female psychology
Humans psychology
Male psychology
Middle Aged psychology
Observer Variation psychology
Parenting psychology
Parents psychology
Questionnaires psychology
Retrospective Studies psychology
Sex Factors psychology
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