Cite (Friedrich): On the Child Sexual Behavior Inventory (CSBI), a parental report measure, sexual behaviors were typically reported more often by parents of sexually abused children. However, all of the sexual behaviors studied were endorsed by parents for at least some children for whom there was no parental suspicion of sexual abuse.
Cite (Friedrich): ... the persistent finding about relationship between sexual abuse and sexual behaivior.
Cite (Brongersma): Het is een feit dat therapeuten dikwijls geraadpleegd worden door ouders die zich ernstige zorgen maken over seksuele activiteiten van hun zoon op een leeftijd die zij daarvoor nog te jong achten, maar nooit door ouders die verontrust zijn over een gebrek aan belangstelling voor seksualiteit bij hun zoon. En toch is dit laatste heel wat verontrustender en onheilspellender, zoals de Franse jeugdpsycholoog Hanry zegt.
On the basis of the problem-behavior theory for adolescence, we hypothesized that already during childhood sexual behavior is associated with (non-sexual) externalizing behaviors and tested the hypothesis in a community sample. In the context of a postal questionnaire survey of 6-10 year old children, the parents of 349 girls and 326 boys completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). The CBCL Sex Problems scale did not differ between genders, ethnic groups, or age groups. For both girls and boys, the scores on the Sex Problems scale correlated significantly but modestly (maximum r=0.35) with all CBCL scales; only in boys did the correlations with externalizing behaviors exceed those with other scales. We conclude that children from a community sample who show sexual behavior as defined by the CBCL tend to be the ones with increased behavioral/emotional problems in general, with only modest specificity in symptomatology.