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Published on: September 19, 2019
Parental support and outcome in sexually abused children
1College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, 203 Henson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. rbolen@utk.edu
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to compare how parental support, attachment of the parent, and the child's report regarding the quality of the parent/child relationship differentially relate to child and parent reports of the child's symptomatology. After controlling for those variables that covary with it, parental support was only significantly related to 2 of 17 scales of parent- and child-reported symptomatology. Parent attachment and the child's report regarding the quality of the parent/child relationship were better predictors than parental support of the child's outcome but varied in the manner in which they contributed to outcome.
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