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PARENTING PRACTICES AMONG NON-OFFENDING MOTHERS OF
SEXUALLY ABUSED GIRLS AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ABUSED GIRLS’
BEHAVIORAL ADJUSTMENT: PERSPECTIVES FROM A
MULTIGENERATIONAL, LONGITUDINAL STUDY
by
Kihyun Kim
______________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(SOCIAL WORK)
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Kihyun Kim
Object Description
| Title | Parenting practices among non-offending mothers of sexually abused girls and its impact on the abused girls' behavioral adjustment: perspectives from a multigenerational, longitudinal study |
| Author | Kim, Kihyun |
| Author email | kihyunki@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Social Work |
| School | School of Social Work |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-06-21 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 7 Aug. 2009. |
| Date published | 2009-08-07 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Trickett, Penelope K. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Mennen, Ferol E. McArdle, John J. |
| Abstract | The primary goal of this study was to examine parenting practices among non-offending mothers of sexually abused girls, and to investigate its long-term impact on their daughters' behavioral adjustment. While support from non-offending mothers has been suggested as a potent resilience-enhancing factor in sexually abused girls' post-abuse adjustment, rigorous studies in the parenting practices of these mothers has been lacking, as well as its impact on the abused girls' adjustment.; In this study, guided by a developmental-ecological perspective of parenting, the five determinants of parenting were included in the parenting model. Based on the existing empirical studies, different patterns of relationships among the determinants were hypothesized and a series of model comparison tests were conducted. Further, children's self-reported behavior problems were introduced to the model and the relationships between maternal factors and their children's behavior outcomes were explored.; Methodologically, this study utilized a sample from a multigenerational, longitudinal study in which both families of sexually abused girls and demographically-similar comparison families participated. The present study is one of a few studies to compare maternal impact on sexually abused girls' post-abuse adjustment to a demographically-similar comparison sample, as well as to investigate the impact using multiple informants and over the long term. This multigenerational, longitudinal approach provided unusual conditions for examining whether and how maternal factors impact on adaptation among sexually abused children, which constitute substantial improvements over past research.; The results from a series of model comparison tests indicated that non-offending mothers' childhood experiences of punitive discipline, as well as current dissociative symptoms, were important determinants of parenting practices among the non-offending mothers. Further, the current findings reiterated that maternal factors -- especially their parenting -- had beneficial impact on decreasing behavior problems among sexually abused girls. The results also showed that, in the relation between maternal factors and children's behavioral adjustment, different causal mechanisms may operate between the sexually abused and their comparison groups.; The significance of these findings is discussed in the context of theories concerning childhood trauma and later parenting, intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment, as well as resilience among abused children. Practical implications of the findings are also presented and further discussed in terms of intervention programs for families where intrafamilial child sexual abuse occurs. |
| Keyword | resilience; child sexual abuse; non-offending mothers; trauma and parenting practices; post-abuse adjustment of sexually abused children |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m730 |
| Rights | Kim, Kihyun |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Kim-20070807 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Kim-20070807.pdf |
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| Full text | PARENTING PRACTICES AMONG NON-OFFENDING MOTHERS OF SEXUALLY ABUSED GIRLS AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ABUSED GIRLS’ BEHAVIORAL ADJUSTMENT: PERSPECTIVES FROM A MULTIGENERATIONAL, LONGITUDINAL STUDY by Kihyun Kim ______________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (SOCIAL WORK) August 2007 Copyright 2007 Kihyun Kim |
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