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Homosexuality and Childhood Trauma in Tunisia
- Source :
- Sexuality & Culture. 24:1929-1934
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Our goal was to assess the traumatic experience suffered in childhood by homosexual subjects and to compare it with the experience of heterosexual subjects. We carried out a study between January 2018 and March 2018 at a non-profit organization in Tunisia (ATL MST-SIDA). Participants who self-identified as homosexual were recruited (n = 24). The control group included healthy heterosexual adults recruited from the hospital staff (n = 24). Childhood trauma was assessed using the French version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. In the homosexual group, we found that the most common form of abuse was physical neglect (61.6%), followed by physical abuse (38.5%), sexual abuse (30.8%), emotional abuse (23.1%), and emotional neglect (23%). The childhood trauma total score was 49.6 in the homosexual group and 35.0 in the heterosexual group, which is a statistically significant difference (p = 0.001). All subscale scores were found to be significantly higher in the homosexual group than in the control group, except physical and emotional abuse. The high reported frequency of childhood trauma among homosexuals calls for immediate attention from government and public health officials.
- Subjects :
- Cultural Studies
medicine.medical_specialty
030505 public health
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Public health
Significant difference
Gender Studies
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physical abuse
Sexual abuse
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Homosexuality
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Psychological abuse
Physical neglect
Emotional neglect
media_common
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19364822 and 10955143
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sexuality & Culture
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........4e6a39501f860efec4ef4df666e7b703