Educational, occupational, and relationship histories of men who were sexually and/or physically abused as children

✍ Scribed by David Lisak; Laura Luster

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 812 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490070402

✦ Synopsis

Ninety men (mean age 26) a t an urban Northeastern university were administered a self-report assessment of their early sexual and physical abuse experiences, and their educational, occupational, relationship, and substance abuse histories. Subjects were classified as sexually abused according to criteria used by and . Sixteen men (17.8%) experienced sexual abuse alone, 22 men (24.4%) physical abuse alone, 15 men (16.7%) both sexual and physical abuse, and 37 men (41.1%) were classified as nonabused. Of the 31 men who reported sexual abuse, 24 (77.4%) were contact, the rest noncontact. Sexually abused men reported signijkantly greater dificulties than nonabused men at all levels of education: grade school, high school and college. They also reported more negative job experiences and more negative experiences in relationships. Physically abused men showed a similar but less pervasive pattern of dificulties. Substance abuse was significantly more prevalent among both sexually and physically abused men than among nonabused subjects.