Adult Attachment, Cognitive Distortions, and Views of Self, Others, and the Future Among Child Molesters

Wood, Eric; Riggs, Shelley A.

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“…Neidigh & Krop, 1992;Ward et al, 1998;Ward, Hudson, & Johnston, 1997) and extracted concrete examples. Since its publication, Ward and Keenan's concept of implicit theories has been accepted widely by researchers in the area of sexual offending, and there is much theoretical and empirical research that supports the concept of implicit theories among rapists, female sexual offenders and violent offenders (Drake, Ward, Nathan, & Lee, 2009;Gannon, Hoare, Rose, & Parrett, 2012;Gannon, Ward, & Collie, 2007;Gannon, Wright, Beech, & Williams, 2006;Howitt & Sheldon, 2007;Mihailides, Devilly, & Ward, 2004;Milner & Webster, 2005;Polaschek, Calvert, & Gannon, 2009;Wood & Riggs, 2009).…”

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An examination of implicit theories among francophone child molesters

Paquette¹,

Cortoni²,

Proulx³

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Journal of Sexual Aggression

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An examination of implicit theories among francophone child molesters

Paquette¹,

Cortoni²,

Proulx³

et al. 2013

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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“…Adults with fearful type of attachment have desire for intimacy whereas they are afraid to be rejected. Hence, they tend to alternate between approaching to and avoiding other people in order to get close to them [25].…”

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The Link between Types of Attachment and Childhood Trauma

Erözkan¹

2016

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The study investigated the relationship between childhood trauma and types of attachment and the predictive role of childhood trauma on types of attachment. The sample was composed of 911 (492 female; 419 male) university students at Mugla Sitki Kocman University, in Turkey. Data were collected using the brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and Relationship Scales Questionnaire. Pearson product-moment correlation analysis was employed to search for relationship between childhood trauma and types of attachment; structural equation modeling was also used for explaining the predictive role of childhood trauma on types of attachment. It was found that the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, and physical and emotional neglect subdimensions of childhood trauma were positively related to fearful, preoccupied, and dismissing attachment styles; whereas these same variables were negatively related to the secure attachment style. Results were discussed in the light of previous findings and in the context of childhood trauma and attachment styles. Further replications using larger samples should be conducted to explore the relationship between childhood trauma and attachment styles.

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“…It is assumed that at least some of the sample may have engaged in this behaviour prior to engaging in contact sexual abuse. Second, although we purposely recruited a nonclinical sample, and applied strict confidentiality and anonymity provisions for participants, there are still the usual challenges regarding retrospective sex offender self-report data (Wood and Riggs 2009;Tan and Grace 2008). Third, this study focussed on the first contact sexual abuse incident and so it is not possible to ascertain if the patterns identified apply to other sexual abuse incidents beyond this initial offence.…”

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How victim age affects the context and timing of child sexual abuse: applying the routine activities approach to the first sexual abuse incident

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The aim of this study was to examine from the routine activities approach how victim age might help to explain the timing, context and nature of offenders' first known contact sexual abuse incident. One-hundred adult male child sexual abusers (M = 45.8 years, SD = 12.2; range = 20-84) were surveyed about the first time they had sexual contact with a child. Afternoon and early evening (between 3 pm and 9 pm) was the most common time in which sexual contact first occurred. Most incidents occurred in a home. Two-thirds of incidents occurred when another person was in close proximity, usually elsewhere in the home. Older victims were more likely to be sexually abused by someone outside their families and in the later hours of the day compared to younger victims. Proximity of another person (adult and/or child) appeared to have little effect on offenders' decisions to abuse, although it had some impact on the level of intrusion and duration of these incidents. Overall, the findings lend support to the application of the routine activities approach for considering how contextual risk factors (i.e., the timing and relationship context) change as children age, and raise questions about how to best conceptualize guardianship in the context of child sexual abuse. These factors should be key considerations when devising and implementing sexual abuse prevention strategies and for informing theory development.

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Adult Attachment, Cognitive Distortions, and Views of Self, Others, and the Future Among Child Molesters

Cited by 21 publications

References 56 publications

An examination of implicit theories among francophone child molesters

An examination of implicit theories among francophone child molesters

The Link between Types of Attachment and Childhood Trauma

How victim age affects the context and timing of child sexual abuse: applying the routine activities approach to the first sexual abuse incident

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