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Babchishin, Kelly M.; Hanson, R. Karl; Helmus, Leslie – Assessment, 2012
Criterion-referenced measures, such as those used in the assessment of crime and violence, prioritize predictive accuracy (discrimination) at the expense of construct validity. In this article, we compared the discrimination and incremental validity of three commonly used criterion-referenced measures for sex offenders (Rapid Risk Assessment for…
Descriptors: Correlation, Predictive Validity, Accuracy, Criterion Referenced Tests
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Annerback, E. M.; Sahlqvist, L.; Svedin, C. G.; Wingren, G.; Gustafsson, P. A. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objective: To examine the associations between child physical abuse executed by a parent or caretaker and self-rated health problems/risk-taking behaviors among teenagers. Further to evaluate concurrence of other types of abuse and how these alone and in addition to child physical abuse were associated with bad health status and risk-taking…
Descriptors: Bullying, Public Health, Foreign Countries, Behavior Problems
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Priebe, Gisela; Svedin, Carl Goran – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate lifetime prevalence and characteristics of self-reported child sexual abuse and associations between child sexual abuse, gender, sociodemographic data, and consensual sexual experiences. A questionnaire was completed by 4,339 Swedish high school seniors. Three categories of child sexual abuse were…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Incidence, Foreign Countries
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Jonzon, Eva; Lindblad, Frank – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2006
Objective: To investigate the relationships between risk and protective factors and health outcome in a sample of adult females who had been victims of child sexual abuse. Method: Both person- and variable-oriented analyses were applied to questionnaire data from a non-clinical group of women (n=152) reporting sexual abuse during childhood.…
Descriptors: Females, Risk, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse