期刊名称：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
印刷版ISSN：2250-0715
电子版ISSN：2248-9010
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：36-50
出版社：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
摘要：This study investigated the impact of family characteristics and family structure as risk factors for sexual abuse among urban secondary school pupils in Zimbabwe. It adopted a survey design as the operational framework for data gathering. Data were collected from three secondary schools in the Gweru district of Zimbabwe. The sample comprised 268 secondary pupils (50 % female; mean age=15.42, SD=1.376). Data were gathered by administering the Child Abuse Screening Tool Children’s Version (ICAST-C). Of the 268 respondents who completed the questionnaire, 151 reported having been sexually abused in one or more ways before the age of 18 years, giving an overall prevalence rate of 56.3 %. Overall, the results show that the most important factors that were found to be consistently associated with child sexual abuse were parental absence, father’s absence, mother's education, parental domestic violence and parental substance abuse. Risk of any child sexual abuse was not associated with the existence of siblings, household size, parental occupation and father’s education. Policies should focus on supporting single mothers and parents who both work outside of the home to reduce the likelihood that children are left vulnerable and at risk of being sexually abused.
关键词：child sexual abuse; family characteristics; family structure; secondary pupils;Zimbabwe.
