Citation

Weill R, Dawson BL, Range LM. J. Fam. Violence 1999; 14(1): 61-70.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, Box 5025, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 39406-5025

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1023/A:1022818026760

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

To see if unabused children with externalizing behavior disorders display more sexual behaviors and verbalizations than other children in their interactions with anatomically detailed dolls, sixteen 3- to 6-year-olds were compared with 44 nonexternalizing controls. A five-phase structured, detailed interview, and comprehensive coding of videotapes by external raters, was completed on 17 behaviors and verbalizations. As would be expected, externalizing children exhibited more overall activity than non-externalizing children. Also, externalizing children exhibited more behavioral sexual aggression during the body inventory phase, but no other differences in sexual behaviors or verbalizations occurred. Results suggest that most normative data on AD dolls generalize to externalizing children.
anatomical dolls - externalizing children - unabused.