New Dataset Available!!

[Anne Heberger <ah89@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List Members:

The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect is pleased to announce 
the release of a new dataset entitled "Parenting Among Women Sexually 
Abused in Childhood".  This study was originally conducted by Mary I. 
Benedict, Ph.D. and is available for secondary analysis.

The objective of the  study was to examine the direct and indirect impacts 
of childhood sexual abuse on maternal attitudes, perceptions, and 
behavior.  The study's participants were a subset of 357 primiparous women 
interviewed at 28 to 32 weeks' gestation between the fall of 1990 and early 
1992.  At the time of the initial interview, almost 35% of the women 
reported sexual abuse before age 18.  In 1995 and 1996, 265 women, 74% of 
the original sample, were re-interviewed when their children were between 
two and fours years old.  In this sample 40% of the respondents had been 
identified as sexually abused in the first study.  In the follow-up 
interview variables measuring parenting outcomes included: child-rearing 
competence, satisfaction, and efficacy; parenting stress; discipline 
practices; and family functioning.  Variables measuring possible mediating 
factors between a history of sexual abuse and parenting practices included: 
education, occupation, income, family structure; current physical and 
mental health parameters, particularly depressive symptomatology; perceived 
current stresses unrelated to parenting; current family violence or sexual 
victimization; and parental sense of mastery.  The data file distributed 
for this study contains 265 cases and 556 variables.

For ordering information please visit our website at 
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/NDACAN/OrderForm.html.

If you would like more information about this study or any of our other 
holdings, please contact me off list at ah89@cornell.edu.

-Anne
Anne E. Heberger, MSW
Coordinator of Data Services
National Data Archive on Child Abuse & Neglect
Family Life Development Center
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-254-4677  E-mail: ah89@cornell.edu  Web:www.ndacan.cornell.edu