It has been suggested that
child sexual abuse is related to poor attachment to parents, which is
associated with an inability to form intimate relationships. Seto and Lalumière
indicated that there were too few studies of adolescent males to determine whether
poor attachment was associated with perpetration.
This study was designed to
follow up on a previous study and further explored the association between
insecure attachment to parents, social isolation, and interpersonal adequacy to
child sexual abuse perpetration in adolescents. We compared two samples of
adolescent males who had committed sexual offenses, those who committed
offenses against children (n = 140) and those who committed offenses against
peer or adults (n = 92), with a sample of similarly aged males in treatment for
mental health or substance use issues (n = 93). Data were collected using a
semi-structured interview and computer-administered questionnaire.
We found an
indirect association between anxious attachment and sexual offenses against
child victims, which was accounted for by measures of social involvement and
social isolation. These involvement and isolation measures also did not have a
direct association with sexual offenses against child victims, in that their
contribution was accounted for by a measure of Masculine Adequacy. This
Masculine Adequacy, combined with decreased levels of Sexual Preoccupation and
Hypersexuality and increased Sexual Compulsivity, was associated with
commission of child sexual abuse.
The interpersonal variables did not enter a
model predicting sexual offending against peers/adults, which seemed solely
associated with the interaction between Sexual Compulsivity and Hypersexuality.
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By: Miner MH1, Swinburne Romine R2, Robinson BB2, Berg D2, Knight RA3
- 1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA miner001@umn.edu.
- 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
- 3Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA.
- Sex Abuse. 2016 Mar;28(2):132-53. doi: 10.1177/1079063214547585. Epub 2014 Aug 20.
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