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Sexual Molestation in a Nonclinical Sample of College Women

MARY ELLEN FROMUTH

Middle Tennessee State University

VICTORIA E. CONN

Middle Tennessee State University

The current study explored molestation committed by females during childhood and adolescence. Participants were 546 female college students recruited from the psychology research pool at a large southeastern university. Using a questionnaire approach, 22 women (4%) described at least one experience that met the criterion for sexually molesting a younger child. Although no offender viewed the experience as having a positive effect on the victim, only 3 of the 22 (14%) viewed what occurred as child sexual abuse. Few differences were found between perpetrators and nonperpetrators on background variables and psychological adjustment. Perpetrators, however, were more likely to have been sexually abused as children and to report having some sexual interest in children.

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 12, No. 3, 456-465 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/088626097012003009
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