SEXUAL ABUSE OF FEMALES

这项研究调查了性行为的心理和生物影响， 虐待女童和少女。主要的假设是 测试的是，（1）与非虐待女孩相比，性虐待， 女孩在整个青春期会有一个更困难的过渡， 对以后的发展产生不利影响;（2）性虐待改变 激素水平和影响青春期的时间;和（3）相比， 对于未受虐待的女孩，性虐待女孩将保持较高的水平， 分裂到青春期和成年期。多方法 数据收集包括青春期阶段的坦纳分期;分析 唾液激素水平;标准化测试和面试的 孩子和父母;观察或父母-孩子互动;和记录 来自教师学校和其他机构受试者是86名性 受虐待的女性及其（非虐待）母亲， 类似的未受虐待的女性和她们的母亲。在进入时， 在最初的研究中，这些女孩的年龄从6岁到15岁不等， 11岁。采用交叉序贯设计， 收集的截面和纵向数据。在最初的研究中， 每年进行三次测量（时间1、时间2和时间3） 的间隔这一延续建议是为了两次以上的 测量，间隔两年，样本的中位年龄将是 第16和18条。这将导致两个重要的补充，以原来的 study. (1)到第2次评估（时间5）时，基本上所有受试者都将 他们的故事，也是一个故事，一个故事，一个故事。 青春期在适应中的作用，进展的时间和速度 通过青春期等，可以得到更充分的检验。(2)到了第五次， 大约一半的样本是年轻人。因此， 研究性虐待的长期影响和某些结果（例如， 可能的教育衰减、早育和养育子女 问题），不能检查时，受试者年轻。

This study examines the psychological and biological effects of sexual abuse on female children and adolescents. The main hypotheses being tested are that (1) as compared with nonabused girls, sexually abused girls will have a more difficult transition thorough puberty which may adversely affect subsequent development; (2) sexual abuse alters hormonal levels and affects the timing of puberty; and (3) as compared with nonabused girls, sexually abused girls will maintain higher levels of dissociation into adolescence and adulthood. A multimethod approach to data collection includes Tanner staging of pubertal stage; assaying of salivary hormonal levels; standardized tests and interviews of the child and parent; observation or parent-child interaction; and records from teachers, schools, and-other agencies. Subjects are 86 sexually abused females and their ( non-abusing) mothers and 82 demographically similar non-abused females and their mothers. At time of entry into the initial study, the girls ranged from 6 to 15 years of age with a median age of 11. A cross-sequential design has been employed and both cross sectional and longitudinal date collected. In the original study, there were three times of measurement (Time 1, Time 2, and Time 3) at yearly intervals. This continuation proposal is for two more times of measurement, two years apart when the median age of the sample will be 16 and 18. This would result in two important additions to the original study. (1) By the 2nd assessment (Time 5), essentially all subjects will have reached menarche and thus the hypotheses concerning the mediating role of puberty in adjustment, the timing of and rate of progression through puberty, etc., can be more adequately tested. (2) By Time 5, about half the sample will be young adults. Thus, it will be possible to examine long term impact of sexual abuse and certain outcomes (e.g., possible educational attenuation, early childbearing, and parenting problems) that could not be examined when the subjects were younger.