In three days (eeek) I leave for New York for a few days before the conference. I ended up with 49 questionnaires - thanks to all who took part (but I need more more more! if we are to make something of this research we need around 200 at least!!)
Anyway I have enough for the conference paper which I am still working on. I enjoy quantitative research but I also get frustrated with it because it often raises more questions than answers!!
Maybe I will post some of these questions on here. Ok here is the first one - over one third have experienced sexual contact when less that 18 years old by someone 5 years or more older than them. Yet when asked to state which of the traumas they have experienced is the main one - 14 of them chose their experience of leaving the EB rather than the sexual contact. Why is this?
Women seem to experience more difficulties with being sociable and with being assertive (though both men and women seem to have difficulty with being assertive).
I will share more when I am less tired ....... my eyes are full of numbers at the moment and my glass of wine beckons
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>Why is this?<
Maybe because family is usually the very support that helps humans be able to overcome these bad experiences ?
may be sexual abuse, emotional abuse and every other kind of abuse was all rolled up in one ball called" leaving the Brethren" either by their withdrawl from the meeting or vice versa.
Hello Anonymous
I have been seriously neglecting this blog haven't I!!
I think your thought that maybe people are grouping all the various kinds of abuse into one is a sound one - most of the sexual abuse has been by members of the EB so maybe people cannot separate it out as being something apart. Good thought - thanks
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