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PubMed1988

Sibling incest.

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PubMed1991

Stigma and incest survivors.

The impact of incestuous child sexual abuse continues to affect victims into their adult lives. Survey responses from college students indicate the predicted stigma surrounding this childhood event varies with gender as well as with length and type of relationship at the time of the disclosure. Women indicate differences in stigma when anticipating various types of relationships with male survivors. Particularly, women show dating as less comfortable than opposite sex friendship, and parenting as less comfortable than marriage. Men do not indicate these differences in stigma based on the type of relationship, but instead predict comfort with female survivors based on the length of relationship.

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PubMed1995

Personality characteristics of father/perpetrators and nonoffending mothers in incest families: individual and dyadic analyses.

Clinical reports suggest that mothers and fathers in incestuous families exhibit characteristic personality traits. Typically the father/perpetrator is described as powerful and domineering, the mother weak and submissive. The present study examined individual personality characteristics of 65 nonoffending mothers and 94 father/perpetrators, and used canonical correlations and multiple regression analyses to examine patterns of personality traits occurring in 63 pairs of fathers and mothers in which there was acknowledged child sexual abuse by the fathers. At the individual level, a minority of both mothers and offenders differed from norms on traits reflecting social inadequacy, but no personality deviations were prototypical in either group. At the dyadic level, no evidence for a pervasive "dominant-submissive" pairing was found. Results indicated that father/perpetrator traits tended to be similar to traits of nonoffending mothers. Forensic, clinical, and research implications of the findings are discussed.

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PubMed1995

Incest revisited: delayed post-traumatic stress disorder in mothers following the sexual abuse of their children.

The case histories of four women who developed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder following the disclosure of the sexual abuse of their daughters are presented. These individuals also exhibited comorbid symptoms of depression and personality disorders. Awareness of the sexual abuse of their daughters catalyzed a reliving of their own childhood victimization. The psychodynamics operating in these cases, as well as treatment strategies are also presented. A brief follow-up of three of the four cases is included.

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PubMed1995

Motherhood among incest survivors.

This is a preliminary report of an investigation of the maternal functioning of woman survivors of child sexual abuse. One possible long-range consequence of child sexual abuse is its effect on the victim's future ideas about parenting, as well as her functioning in this role. Clinicians have observed a multigenerational "transmission" of this abuse, yet most empirical findings are insufficient in substantiating this notion. A study group of 26 mothers who are adult survivors was compared with a control group of 28 mothers with no such abuse in their background. Seven areas of parenting skills were investigated: role-image, objectivity, expectations, rapport, communication, limit-setting, and role-support. Significant differences were found on all seven scales, characterized by a tendency of the study group to be less skillful in the maternal functioning than the control group. Particularly high differences were found on the scales of role-support, communication, and role-image. Secrecy, shame, and self blame, so often associated with this abuse, are offered as partial explantation of the study group's general undeveloped social skills. However, other factors, such as age of onset and termination of the abuse, its severity as well as family dynamics and relationship, may contribute to these results. Further research in this area is therefore needed. Meanwhile, therapists should pay more attention to the maternal functioning of CSA survivors who are under their care.

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