Neglect, online invasive exploitation, and childhood sexual abuse in Hong Kong: Breaking the links

Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a form of maltreatment that involves a child in sexual activity that she or he cannot fully comprehend or is unable to give informed consent to. The empirical link between child neglect and contact child sexual abuse is well established but little research examines me...

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Published in:Child abuse & neglect 2024-01, Vol.147, p.106591-106591, Article 106591
Main Authors: Emery, Clifton R, Wong, Paul W C, Haden-Pawlowski, Virgil, Pui, Cayla, Wong, Grace, Kwok, Steve, Liu, Amy Yinan, Abdullah, Alhassan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Child
Child Abuse
Child Abuse, Sexual
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Hong Kong - epidemiology
Humans
Sexual Behavior
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Summary:Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a form of maltreatment that involves a child in sexual activity that she or he cannot fully comprehend or is unable to give informed consent to. The empirical link between child neglect and contact child sexual abuse is well established but little research examines mediators that explain this link. This study tests online risk behaviors and unwanted sexual experiences online as sequential mediators of the neglect - CSA relationship. The study uses a representative cross-sectional sample of 1097 Hong Kong adolescents. Preacher and Hayes' (2008) non-parametric bootstrap approach was used to test three mediation hypotheses. Baseline logistic regression models showed neglected children had 11.2 times higher odds of reporting contact CSA (p 
ISSN:0145-2134
1873-7757
DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106591