Maternal support following childhood sexual abuse: Relationships to child-reported |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine, 800 Howard Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA;2. Yale Center for Medical Informatics, 300 George Street, Suite 501, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA;3. Department of Surgery, Greenville Health System,701 Grove Road, Greenville, SC, 29605, USA;4. Department of Pediatrics, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, 282 Washington Street, Hartford, CT, 06106, USA;5. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 208042, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06520-8042, USA;6. Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 208064, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06520-8064, USA;1. Department of Social Welfare, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea;2. Department of Public Health, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea;3. Department of Sociology, The Academy of Korean Studies (AKS), South Korea;1. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, 108 Wolf Hall Newark, DE 19716, United States;2. Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, 1124 Life Sciences Building ? P.O. Box 6040 Morgantown, WV 26506, United States;3. Kennedy Krieger Institute,Johns Hopkins University, 707 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States |
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| Abstract: | Maternal support has been conceptualized as a key factor in predicting children’s functioning following sexual abuse; however, empirical evidence for this assumption is rather limited. Prior studies may have failed to find a relationship between maternal support and children’s outcomes due to the methodological weaknesses of the prior literature such as the use of maternal support measures without adequately reported psychometric properties. Moreover, relatively few studies have investigated whether maternal support corresponds with children’s own self-reported symptoms. The aim of the present study was to utilize the only published measure of maternal support with sufficient psychometrics, the Maternal Self-Report Support Questionnaire (MSSQ; Smith et al., 2010), to determine if levels of pre-treatment support are associated with children’s self-reported trauma-related symptoms among 165 treatment-seeking children (M = 10.85, SD = 3.09) and their non-offending mothers. Levels of maternal emotional support corresponded with few of children’s outcomes, and when relationships were observed, emotional support was related to higher levels of symptoms. Maternal levels of blame and doubt were only associated with dissociative symptoms. Maternal support therefore appears to be an ineffective predictor of children’s post-disclosure trajectories and raises the possibility that maternal support is linked with poorer functioning. |
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| Keywords: | Maternal support Parental blame Children’s symptoms Sexual abuse |
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