title: Parental support and outcome in sexually abused children.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to compare how parental support, attachment of the parent, and the child's report regarding the quality of the parent/child relationship differentially relate to child and parent reports of the child's symptomatology. After controlling for those variables that covary with it, parental support was only significantly related to 2 of 17 scales of parent- and child-reported symptomatology. Parent attachment and the child's report regarding the quality of the parent/child relationship were better predictors than parental support of the child's outcome but varied in the manner in which they contributed to outcome.
authors: College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, 203 Henson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. rbolen@utk.edu
authors: Rebecca M
authors: RM
authors: Bolen
authors: J Leah
authors: JL
authors: Lamb
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002654:Child Care / Q000523:psychology*; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012944:Social Support; D015206:Southwestern United States; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires