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Sexual abuse and corporal punishment during childhood: a pilot retroperspective survey of university students
Fecha
1992-07Autor
Krugman, Scott
Mata Jiménez, Leonardo
Krugman, Richard
Institución
Resumen
A sample of 497 students at the University of Costa Rica completed a survey on perceptions and experiences with various forms of punishment and experiences with sexual abuse during childhood. Spanking was shown to be the most widely accepted and most common form of discipline. The majority of the students considered most types of punishment forms of abuse. This study lacks a comparison group and cannot be generalized to the entire Costa Rican population. The section on sexual abuse demonstrated that 32% of the women and 13% of the men experienced some type of sexual abuse during childhood. The abuse mainly occurred between the ages of 5 and 10, and men were most often perpetrators.