Faculty Articles
Acts of Childhood Sexual Abuse: An Empirically Derived Typology
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-1998
Publication Title
Journal of Family Violence
Volume
13
Issue/Number
3
First Page
233
ISSN
0885-7482
Last Page
242
Abstract/Excerpt
A clinical sample of 165 women survivors in outpatient therapy was surveyed about whether their childhood sexual abuse (CSA) included each of 17 sexual acts. Factor analysis of these acts was conducted. A typology of CSA acts consisting of three factors emerged. Inspection of the acts loading on each factor suggested that they differed primarily in terms of the type of abuse of power implied by them rather than in the nature of the sexual behavior involved. The three factors were named Coerced Complicance ( Coercion), Subjugation and Humiliation ( Subjugation) and Invasive Objectification ( Objectification). Implications for research, theory, and clinical practice, and the need for evaluating the generalizability of the typology to other subpopulations of survivors, are discussed.
DOI
10.1023/A:1022836921616
NSUWorks Citation
Gold, S. N.,
Swingle, J. M.,
Hill, E. L.,
Elfant, A. S.
(1998). Acts of Childhood Sexual Abuse: An Empirically Derived Typology. Journal of Family Violence, 13(3), 233-242.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/465
