Publication year: 2011
Source: Child Abuse & Neglect, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 April 2011
Tae Kyung, Kim , Soul, Choi , Yee Jin, Shin
Objectives: The objectives of this study are to assess children’s competence to state their traumatic experience and to determine psychosocial factors influencing the competency of children’s statements, such as emotional factors of children and parents and trauma-related variables, in Korean child sex abuse victims. Methods: We enrolled 214 children, who visited “Sunflower Children’s Center” for sexual abuse. The children were aged 8–13 years. The children’s parent were surveyed using questionnaires [Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory(STAI)] to obtain demographic information, traumatic event profiles and self-report scale. Children completed psychological measures as follows: Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI), Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS),…