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Childhood sexual abuse and pathogenic parenting in the childhood recollections of adult twin pairs.

Abstract：

BACKGROUND:We examined the relationship between childhood sexual abuse (CSA), and interviewees' recollections of pathogenic parenting, testing for possible retrospective biases in the recollections of those who have experienced CSA. METHODS:Information about CSA, parental divorce and interviewees' recollections of parental rejection, parental overprotection and perceived autonomy (as assessed through a shortened version of the Parental Bonding Instrument) was obtained through telephone interviews with 3626 Australian twins who had also returned self-report questionnaires several years earlier. Recollections of parental behaviours were compared for individuals from pairs in which neither twin, at least one twin, or both twins reported CSA. RESULTS:Significant associations were noted between CSA and paternal alcoholism and between CSA and recollections of parental rejection. For women, individuals from CSA-discordant pairs reported levels of parental rejection that were significantly higher than those obtained from CSA-negative pairs. The levels of parental rejection observed for twins from CSA-discordant pairs did not differ significantly from those obtained from CSA-concordant pairs, regardless of respondent's abuse status. For men from CSA-discordant pairs, respondents reporting CSA displayed a tendency to report higher levels of parental rejection than did respondents not reporting CSA. Other measures of parenting behaviour (perceived autonomy and parental overprotection) failed to show a clear relationship with CSA. CONCLUSIONS:The relationship between CSA and respondents' recollections of parental rejection is not due solely to retrospective bias on the part of abused individuals and, consistent with other studies, may reflect a pathological family environment with serious consequences for all siblings.

journal_name

Psychol Med

journal_title

Psychological medicine

authors

McLaughlin TL,Heath AC,Bucholz KK,Madden PA,Bierut LJ,Slutske WS,Dinwiddie S,Statham DJ,Dunne MP,Martin NG

doi

10.1017/s0033291799002809

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1293-302

issue

eissn

0033-2917

issn

1469-8978

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Childhood sexual abuse and pathogenic parenting in the childhood recollections of adult twin pairs.