title: African-American undergraduates' perceptions and attributions of child sexual abuse.
abstract: This study examined perceptions of child sexual abuse and attributions of responsibility in a cross-sectional convenience sample of 384 African-American undergraduates using a scenario manipulating the age of the victim, gender of the victim, and gender of the perpetrator. Multiple interactions of respondent, victim, and perpetrator gender on perception of intrafamilial child sexual abuse and attributions of responsibility for victim, perpetrator, and parents were obtained. These results extended previous research conducted on primarily Caucasian samples and highlighted the moderating role of gender of the respondent for this ethnicity.
authors.affiliation: Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Baltimore City Community College, Baltimore, MD 21215, USA. hhestick@bccc.edu
authors.forename: Henrietta
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hestick
authors.forename: Carrol S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Perrino
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000208:ethnology*; D019548:Crime Victims; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011639:Public Opinion; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult