Describing a maladaptive parent-child relationship wherein a parent turns to a child for the satisfaction of emotional and/or relational needs, emotional incest remains an underinvestigated ...phenomenon. This is partly due to a lack of an empirically based measure of childhood emotional incest, and as a result, a 2-factor, 12-item scale was created based on expert opinion and a preliminary study of 319 university students. Each consisting of 6 items, the factors were called "Surrogate Spouse" and "Unsatisfactory Childhood." A follow-up study conducted with a second sample of 415 participants supports the 2-factor structure as a good fit to the data as well as the invariance of the scale across genders. The Childhood Emotional Incest Scale (CEIS) demonstrates good convergent validity with childhood emotional neglect (r = .58) and emotional abuse (r = .52) as well as good divergent validity with early memories of warmth and safeness (r = −0.54). The CEIS has also been found to be a stronger predictor of decreased life satisfaction and increased anxiety than the Parent-Focused Parentification subscale. Based on the values of internal consistency, composite reliability, and test-retest reliability, both factor and total scores of the CEIS can also be considered reliable. Therefore, as a measure of childhood emotional experiences for the retrospective assessment of adults, the 12-item CEIS can be utilized in the research of counseling, psychology, and education, particularly with regard to expanding knowledge into the roots and consequences of emotional incest and promoting parenting practices and marital/relational dynamics that are more functional.
Public Significance Statement
Conducted with the aim of developing the Childhood Emotional Incest Scale (CEIS), the present study supports the idea that emotional incest may force children to sacrifice their childhood in an attempt to satisfy the emotional needs of lonely and/or needy parents and that it leads to decreased life satisfaction and increased anxiety in adult children. The CEIS can allow for a more rigorous study of emotional incest determinants and outcomes.
Although sibling sexual abuse (SSA) is one of the most common forms of sexual abuse, it has been particularly neglected in previous research. Hence, characteristics of this form of abuse and its ...longer term implications are not well understood. The aims of the current review were to precisely characterize the phenomenon of SSA and to condense the implications known to date of SSA on survivors. We included 15 studies with a total sample size of 14,680 individuals. Our results indicate that SSA has some unequivocal features such as an early onset, an extended duration and frequency, and a particularly high intensity (i.e., involvement of coercion, force, superiority, and manipulation). Our findings also revealed that SSA is linked to later depression, anxiety, impaired self-esteem, and sexual functioning. The findings of the current review suggest that (1) SSA is common, (2) SSA has various negative effects on survivors’ mental health, and that (3) SSA and its implications have been and to date are marginalized in research and practice. Results are discussed with a special focus on clinical implications.
Sibling sexual abuse (SSA) is a pervasive form of intrafamilial sexual violence. A review of existing literature underscores ongoing challenges to comprehensive understanding of this offense due to ...definitional inconsistencies, small sample sizes, data constraints, methodological shortcomings including reporting practices, and a dearth of empirical scrutiny. Previous studies have relied on retrospective, non-representative, clinical, or homogeneous samples.
The present work updates knowledge on SSA addressing several persistent limitations in previous studies and offering contemporary victim, offender, and incident-based profiles to promote avenues for future risk assessment, prevention, and intervention strategies.
This study, both exploratory and descriptive, draws on the five most recent years (2018–2022) of data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the largest available dataset (N = 30,640), containing SSA incidents reported to law enforcement.
Significant sex differences were noted across age, race, victim injury, offense type, and relationship. Female victims were more likely to experience abuse from older siblings and were nearly 2.5 times more likely to be victimized as an adult than their male counterparts. Female victims were also more likely to report injury, yet less likely than male victims to experience forcible penetration during an SSA incident.
Findings substantiate the ongoing need for continued refinement of SSA definitional criteria, which, in turn, will lead to greater identification and reporting of incidents. Moreover, findings here underscore the importance of considering age and gender dynamics to guide risk assessment, intervention, and prevention strategies.
Proposes that the unease we feel thinking and talking about incest is a learned behavior and examines the anxiety of incest as it has been continually refitted into fictional family structures since ...the turn of the 19th century.
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding ...predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains-on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations.
Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory.
Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present,The Secret of Our Successexplores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
To calculate the likelihood ratios of incest cases using identity by descent (IBD) patterns.
The unique IBD pattern was formed by denoting the alleles from the members in a pedigree with a same ...digital. The probability of each IBD pattern was obtained by multiplying the prior probability by the frequency of non-IBD alleles. The pedigree likelihoods of incest cases under different hypotheses were obtained by summing all IBD pattern probabilities, and the likelihood ratio(LR) was calculated by comparing the likelihoods of different pedigrees.
The IBD patterns and the formulae of calculating LR for father-daughter incest and brother-sister incest were obtained.
The calculations of LR for incest cases were illustrated based on IBD patterns.
She's So Exceptional Goodwin, Michele
The University of Chicago law review,
03/2024, Letnik:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
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Este trabajo sobre el filme Géminis (2005) de Albertina Carri se enfoca en su estructura melodramática y las estrategias cinematográficas para criticar a la sociedad de consumo y a la oligarquía ...argentina a principios del siglo XXI. El tema del incesto en Géminis subvierte las normas ideológicas del melodrama convencional y problematiza la expresión de la identidad sexual en el asfixiante espacio familiar. El rol de la madre en la narrativa melodramática ofrece asociaciones intertextuales con otras madres del cine nacional y el nuevo cine argentino y establece una conexión con el tema de la memoria colectiva de la posdictadura.
Este artículo analiza "El abrigo de zorro azul" de Rosario Ferré, proponiendo que el cuento, publicado en Papeles de Pandora (1976), cuestiona las concepciones binarias del género y la sexualidad a ...través de la hibridez tanto de sus protagonistas como de su narración. Jugando con los tabúes sexuales sobre el incesto y la homosexualidad, la historia presenta gemelos fraternos que no solo desafían las normas de género y sexualidad, sino que también se funden, con la ayuda de un narrador polifónico e híbrido, para formar un personaje quimérico que encarna al hombre y a la mujer simultáneamente. Este artículo ofrece una nueva mirada a un cuento que la crítica literaria ha pasado por alto pero que ilustra ideas radicales imaginadas por la autora puertorriqueña.
