Long-term psychological correlates of childhood sexual abuse in two samples of college men

Fromuth, Mary Ellen; Burkhart, Barry R.

doi:10.1016/0145-2134(89)90057-4

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“…This criticism is selective, however, given that abuse researchers examining college samples have often cited this study for background (e.g., Finkelhor, 1979;Fromuth & Burkhart, 1989). Fink's implication that the Landis study is invalid because of high rates of non-contact CSA is itself misleading.…”

Section: The Leadership Council and Its Criticism That We "Loaded Ourmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…This claim is simply false; in Table 7 (Rind et al, 1998, p. 36), we used superscript a for our neutral percents for both of these studies, clarifying the coding procedure. They also complained that we coded Fromuth and Burkhart's (1989) "surprised" category as neutral. We had good reason to do so: these researchers based their measure of reactions on that of Finkelhor (1979), which in turn reflected that of Landis (1956), both of whom interpreted "surprised" as a neutral response.…”

Section: Additional Criticisms By the Leadership Councilmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Condemnation of a Scientific Article: A Chronology and Refutation of the Attacks and a Discussion of Threats to the Integrity of Science

Rind

Tromovitch

Bauserman³

2000

Sex Cult

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R o b e r t B a u s e r m a n Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, State of MarylandOn July 12, 1999, our meta-analysis on child sexual abuse published in Psychological Bulletin, one of the American Psychological Association's (APA) premiere journals, was condemned by the U.S. Congress (H. Con. Res. 107).The condemnation followed months of attacks on the article, the APA, and us by various social conservatives and psychoanalytically-oriented clinicians. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was asked by the APA to independently review our article. After considering criticisms of it and the article itself, AAAS declined, but commented that it was the criticisms, not our methods or analyses, that troubled them because these criticisms misrepresented what we wrote. The current article chronicles this whole affair. First, we provide background, explaining why an article such as ours was needed. Then we accurately summarize the article, given that it has been so widely misrepresented. Next we present a chronology of the events leading up to and following the condemnation. We then present and refute all the major criticisms of the article, which have included both methodological and conceptual attacks. Next we discuss the threat to science that these events portend. We conclude by discussing the need to separate moral judgments from scientific research, the conflation of which formed the basis for the distortions and condemnation.

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Section: The Leadership Council and Its Criticism That We "Loaded Ourmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Additional Criticisms By the Leadership Councilmentioning

confidence: 97%

Condemnation of a Scientific Article: A Chronology and Refutation of the Attacks and a Discussion of Threats to the Integrity of Science

Rind

Tromovitch

Bauserman³

2000

Sex Cult

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“…From the former group, it has been demonstrated that abused men tend to score significantly higher on measures of depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsiveness, dissociation, hostility, low self-esteem, sleep disturbance, sexual dysfunction, impaired relationships and suicide attempts (Briere el af., 1988;Fromuth and Burkhart, 1989;Hunter, 1991).…”

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The psychological impact of sexual abuse: Content analysis of interviews with male survivors

Lisak

1994

Journal of Traumatic Stress

145

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Autobiographical interviews with 26 adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim and content analyzed to identify common psychological themes. Approximately equal numbers of men were abused by male and female perpetrators, almost half came from disrupted or violent homes and a majority had a history of substance abuse. Fifteen psychological themes were identified: Anger, Betrayal, Fear, Homosexuality Issues, Helplessness, Isolation and Alienation, Legitimacy, Loss, Masculinity Issues, Negative Childhood Peer Relations, Negative Schemas about People, Negative Schemas about the Self, Problems with Sexuality, Self Blame/Guilt and Shame/Humiliation. The themes are discussed and illustrated with examples drawn from the transcripts.

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“…However, in various studies, women have been shown to be the abuser, either jointly, in polyincestous activities, or alone between 5% and 15% of the time (Bentovim, Boston, & Van Elgurg, 1987;Faller, 1989). Fromuth & Burkhart (1989) studied two samples of college men and suprisingly found that 70% and 60%, respectively, of those reporting abuse being abused by women. On the subject of the denial of women being abusers, McCarty (1986) reported encountering an attitude of "women being viewed as sexually harmless to children: what harm can be done without a penis" (p. 28)?…”

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Male victims of child sexual abuse

Cermak

Molidor

1996

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Despite the increased attention the subject of child sexual abuse has received in recent years, rarely has much consideration been given to the boys and adolescent males who are the victims of such abuse. That young girls are consistently the clear majority of sexual abuse victims is not disputed, however the extent to which they are the majority is in question. A review of existing literature has indicated that one of the leading factors for this inadvertent negligence in presenting a truer picture of the magnitude of the problem for male victims concerns the area of under-reporting of the incidence of abuse of young males. Under-reporting has served to give a false sense of the scope of child sexual abuse, particularly for male children. Many societal and methodological factors contribute to under-reporting. Reasons for the discrepancy in reporting abuse will be presented and implications for practice will be discussed.

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Long-term psychological correlates of childhood sexual abuse in two samples of college men

Cited by 100 publications

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Condemnation of a Scientific Article: A Chronology and Refutation of the Attacks and a Discussion of Threats to the Integrity of Science

Condemnation of a Scientific Article: A Chronology and Refutation of the Attacks and a Discussion of Threats to the Integrity of Science

The psychological impact of sexual abuse: Content analysis of interviews with male survivors

Male victims of child sexual abuse

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