Article(electronic)February 1, 2001

Child Sexual Behavior Inventory: Normative, Psychiatric, and Sexual Abuse Comparisons

In: Child maltreatment: journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Volume 6, Issue 1, p. 37-49

Friedrich, William N.; Fisher, Jennifer L.; Dittner, Carrie Anne; Acton, Robert; Berliner, Lucy; Butler, Judy; Damon, Linda; Davies, W. Hobart; Gray, Alison; Wright, John

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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.

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English

Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISSN: 1552-6119

DOI

10.1177/1077559501006001004

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