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Association with Aggression

Aggressive behavior is also often mentioned as related with sexual abuse, for example in Lodico et.al. 1996. But among 1580 delinquent adolescent males studied by Weber et al. 1992 only 3.2% reported sexual abuse or incest.

Merrill et al 2001 in a study of US Navy recruits have found that sexual and physical abuse have been predictive for rape.

Influence of Severity

Bigras et.al. 1991 describe 11 cases with severe chronic psychotic symptoms and aggressive behaviour. In all patients, the incest for occurred over a long period of time, was violent, and was perpetrated by the male parental figure.

Relation to other types of abuse

Roy 2001 has found significant correlations between a hostility score and scores for childhood emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect and physical neglect.

Other results