title: Perpetration, revictimization, and self-injury: traumatic reenactments of child sexual abuse in a nonclinical sample of South African adolescents.
abstract: Risk factors for traumatic reenactments of child sexual abuse experiences (perpetration, revictimization, and self-injury) were examined in a sample of 718 South African secondary school adolescents. Logistic regression analyses indicated that the most consistent predictors of reenactments were a history of child sexual abuse (rape and/or indecent assault) and respondents' gender, with males being significantly more likely than females to report perpetration (OR = 13.5) and females being more likely to report revictimization (OR = 3.2) and self-injury (OR = 2.5). An analysis restricted to respondents with a history of child sexual abuse indicated that negative abuse-related cognitions were the most consistent predictor of all forms of traumatic reenactment.
authors.affiliation: a University of KwaZulu-Natal , Durban , South Africa.
authors.forename: Susan L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Penning
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Collings
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D013019:South Africa; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: South Africa; adolescents; child sexual abuse; perpetration; revictimization; self-injury; traumatic reenactment