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Table 5

The Association Between Psychological/Behavioral
Variables and Childhood Sexual Experiences With an Older
Partner (CSEOP) and the Perception of Sexual Abuse

Note: N = 307.

CSEOP:
None = did not have sexual contact prior to age 13 with a partner that was at least 4 years older
Not Abuse = did have CSEOP but does not consider the experiences to be sexual abuse
Abuse = did have CSEOP and does consider the experiences to be sexual abuse
(a) Higher means indicate higher self-esteem, more substance
use, more unprotected sex in past year, more male sex partners in past year, better sexual functioning, and more problems in childhood family environment
(b) Mean is of raw values which were log-transformed prior to statistical test due to skewness
(c) Test of differences adjusting for childhood family environment
 
 

CSEOP

ANOVA ANACOVA (c)
  None Not abuse Abuse
N = 207 41 59 sig. sig.
Self-Esteem (a) 2.23 2.12 2.l0 .107 .264
Alcohol use (a) 1.97 2.12 2.46 .051 .045
Drug use (a) 0.21 0.24 0.26 .547 .625
Unprotected anal sex (a,b) 21.8 27.2 30.4 .042 .068
Male sex partners (a, b) 16.8 32.0 82.5 .031 .052
Sexual functioning (a) 3.97 3.89 4.06 .723 .403
Family environment (a) 1.00 1.25 1.33 .018 NA

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