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Hindi Research Article, J Trauma Stress Disor Treat Vol: 3 Issue: 3
Male Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse by a Male or Female Perpetrator
| Sharon Gil* |
| Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Albert Road Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Corresponding author : Sharon Gil School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel 31905 E-mail: gsharon@research.haifa.ac.il |
| Received: March 10, 2014 Accepted: April 21, 2014 Published: May 20, 2014 |
| Citation: Gil S (2014) Male Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse by a Male or Female Perpetrator. J Trauma Stress Disor Treat 3:3. doi:10.4172/2324-8947.1000128 |
Abstract
Male Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse by a Male or Female Perpetrator
The aim of the study was to expand the understanding regarding male victims of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) by male or female perpetrators. We compared 58 males who had been sexually abused by males with 39 males who had been abused by females in the domains of personality traits, trauma-related features, traumarelated psychopathologies, and fear of intimacy. The findings of the study revealed that male perpetrators were more aggressive and intensive in their abuse than female perpetrators, presumably generating greater psychopathology in their victims, including higher levels of neuroticism, PTSD and dissociative symptoms, fear of exposure, fear of attack, and fear of one’s own destructiveness.
