Effects of abuse experience and impulsiveness on the sexual violence of middle school students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to provide basic data for sexual violence prevention policies using law consciousness by elucidating the moderated mediation effect of law consciousness in the influence of adolescents’ abuse experiences from parents on sexual violence through impulsiveness. The research questions to achieve this purpose are established as follows: First, what is the correlation between abuse experience, impulsiveness, law consciousness, and sexual violence? Second, what is the moderated mediation effect of law consciousness in the relationship between abuse experiences from parents, impulsiveness, and sexual violence? For the analysis, SPSS window version 25.0 and PROCESS macro version 3.5 were used, and frequency analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, moderated mediation effect analysis and bootstrap method were performed. As a result of the study, first, Pearson correlation analysis showed that there were significant correlations between abuse experiences from parents, law consciousness, impulsiveness, and sexual violence. Abuse experience was positively correlated with impulsiveness and sexual violence, but it was negatively correlated with law consciousness. Second, the moderated mediating effect of law consciousness on the mediating effect of impulsiveness in the link between abuse experiences from parents and sexual violence was verified.