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The relationship between child sexual abuse and academic achievement in a sample of adolescent psychiatric inpatients

Buckle, Sarah K., Lancaster, Sandra, Powell, Martine B., Higgins, Daryl J.·2005·Child Abuse & Neglect
DOI 10.1016/j.chiabu.2004.12.013
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Objectives To examine the relationship between sexual abuse and academic achievement in an adolescent inpatient psychiatric population. Individual factors expected to influence this relationship were measured to explore the way they each interacted with sexual abuse and its relationship to academic achievement.Method Eighty-one adolescent psychiatric inpatients participated in the study (aged 12--18 years: M=16.0). 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.Results Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that intelligence was the main predictor of academic achievement (uniquely explaining 26% of the variance). 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.Discussion 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.

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Authors
Buckle, S. K., Lancaster, S., Powell, M. B., & Higgins, D. J.
Affiliations
  • Deakin University (AU)
  • Monash University (AU)
Corresponding author
Powell, Martine B.
ORCID
Venue
Child Abuse & Neglect
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-09
Volume
29
Issue
9
Pages
1031-1047
ISSN
0145-2134 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.chiabu.2004.12.013
OpenAlex
W1988780733
Cited by
45
References
32
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FWCI
1.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Child Abuse & Neglect (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Victoria University Research Repository (Victoria University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Military, Security, and Education Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
Keywords
child sexual abuse, academic performance, adolescents, psychiatric inpatients, intelligence, substance abuse, internalizing problems, externalizing problems, parental overprotection, maltreatment, socioeconomic status, psychopathology, family dysfunction, poverty, interaction effects, risk factors for abuse, parenting perceptions, alcohol consumption, drug use, academic underachievement
MeSH terms
Achievement, Adolescent, Mental Disorders, Child, Child Abuse, Sexual, Female, Humans, Inpatients, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Male, Psychopathology

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