Table 3.
Percentage of victims’ age at the first experience and perpetrator’s characteristics as a function of gender for “somebody touched my private parts”.
| Variables | N | % | Male (n = 35) |
Female (n = 72) |
χ2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age at first experience | |||||
| <6 | 9 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.3 | 3.47 |
| 6–11 | 53 | 49.5 | 37.1 | 55.6 | |
| 12–15 | 24 | 22.4 | 28.6 | 19.4 | |
| 16–17 | 21 | 19.6 | 25.7 | 16.7 | |
| Number of times | |||||
| Once | 46 | 43.0 | 45.7 | 41.7 | 5.75 |
| 2–3 | 33 | 30.8 | 40.0 | 26.4 | |
| 4–5 | 9 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.3 | |
| >5 | 19 | 17.8 | 5.7 | 23.6 | |
| Perpetrator (more than one experience) | |||||
| Same person | 39 | 63.9 | 73.7 | 59.5 | 1.14 |
| Different people | 22 | 36.1 | 26.3 | 40.5 | |
| Gender of perpetrator | |||||
| Male | 89 | 83.2 | 62.9 | 93.1 | 15.40 a,** |
| Female | 15 | 14.0 | 31.4 | 5.6 | |
| Both | 3 | 2.8 | 5.7 | 1.4 | |
| Relationship with perpetrator | |||||
| Parent | 9 | 8.4 | 5.7 | 9.7 | 0.50 |
| Another adult family member | 20 | 18.7 | 8.6 | 23.6 | 3.51 * |
| Responsible for childcare | 6 | 5.6 | 8.6 | 4.2 | 0.86 |
| Adult acquaintance | 40 | 37.4 | 34.3 | 38.9 | 0.21 |
| Strange adult | 31 | 29.0 | 31.4 | 27.8 | 0.15 |
| Another minor | 24 | 22.4 | 25.7 | 20.8 | 0.32 |
Note. a Bootstrapping. ** p < 0.01. * p < 0.05.