아동기 성폭력 피해의 비폭로 요인

The factors influencing children to non-disclosure of sexual violence: Focusing on the experiences of women who non-disclosing child sexual abuse

This study aims to investigate the factors influencing children to non-disclosure of sexual Abuse. The participations in this study are 4 women who had experienced child sexual abuse under the age of 13 but could not disclose their CSA to someone. The participants received in-depth interview individually. The interview datum including verbatim and behavior observation were analysed through qualitative research technique. The results indicated that 7 core factors were influencing non-discloure of CSA. There were included family dysfunction, self-attribution, cognitive distortion about sex, emotional distress, memory suppress, attachment to the perpetrator, and the developmental limitations of cognition. Their disclosure was suppressed when they could not anticipate positive result, especially when their families are dysfunctional and their protectors are abusive or non-supportive. The children of dysfunctional family developed fear that their exposure might bring down their families or distress their parents. As sexual abuse repeated, the children adapted themselves to the incidents and reinforced to punish and stigmatized themselves as filthy and sexually immoral and finally attributed themselves that everything caused because of them. Sexually abused children acquired distorted sexual cognition in process of incidents. The distorted sexual cognition that wrongly formed through the incidents suppressed the disclosure of SA. Emotional distresses resulting from the incidents also led to psychological resistance against recalling the incident consciously, and carried it over to a memory suppress and disclosure of SA. Besides, some children formed an attachment to the perpetrator for their psychological survival. The developmental limitations of cognition led to misinterpretation of SA, and could not know how to speak.