title: Child Sexual Behavior Inventory: normative, psychiatric, and sexual abuse comparisons.
abstract: A normative sample of 1,114 children was contrasted with a sample of 620 sexually abused children and 577 psychiatric outpatients on the Child Sexual Behavior Inventory (CSBI), a 38-item behavior checklist assessing sexual behavior in children 2 to 12 years old. The CSBI total score and each individual item differed significantly between the three groups after controlling for age, sex, maternal education, and family income. Sexually abused children exhibited a greater frequency of sexual behaviors than either the normative or psychiatric outpatient samples. Test-retest reliability and interitem correlation were satisfactory. Sexual behavior problems were related to other generic behavior problems. This contributed to the reduced discrimination between psychiatric outpatients and sexually abused children when compared to the normative/sexually abused discrimination.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. friedrich.william@mayo.edu
authors.forename: W N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Friedrich
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Dittner
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Acton
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Berliner
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Butler
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Damon
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education; D011594:Psychometrics; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012737:Sex Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*