Parental support and outcome in sexually abused children.
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.
Bolen
Rebecca M
RM
College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, 203 Henson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. rbolen@utk.edu
Lamb
J Leah
JL
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