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The relationship between child sexual abuse and academic achievement in a sample of adolescent psychiatric inpatients
- Authors:
- BUCKLE Sarah K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 29(9), September 2005, pp.1031-1047.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Eighty-one adolescent psychiatric inpatients participated in the study. The participants were adolescents who were admitted to an Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Unit in Melbourne, Australia. Participants were administered tests of academic achievement (dependent variable) and intelligence, and completed a number of self-report measures of their experience of different types of maltreatment, their perception of the parenting they received, socio-economic status, substance abuse, and psychopathology. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that intelligence was the main predictor of academic achievement. A number of interaction effects were also significant indicating that intelligence, substance abuse, internalizing behavior problems, externalizing behavior problems all influenced the relationship between sexual abuse and academic achievement. The authors conclude that examining the impact of sexual abuse is complex because it is typically an experience embedded in a range of other risk factors, such as poverty, family dysfunction, and other types of maltreatment. This study demonstrated coexistence between sexual abuse and a number of other variables, including other maltreatment types and parental overprotection, underscoring the requirement for complex models of research that more accurately reflect the experience of abused children.