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ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2025

German Version of the Child Sexual Abuse Myth Scale (CSAMS-G): Translation, Expansion, and Construct Validation.

Lennart Bayer, Maike Cigelski, Justine Eilfgang, Elisabeth Barbara Kraus, Frieda Mensing, Simone Pülschen

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Lennart BayerDepartment for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Context of Sexual Violence, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Auf dem Campus 1, 24943 Flensburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3697-2325
Maike CigelskiDepartment for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Context of Sexual Violence, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Auf dem Campus 1, 24943 Flensburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6949-5211
Justine EilfgangDepartment for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Context of Sexual Violence, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Auf dem Campus 1, 24943 Flensburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5463-8347
Elisabeth Barbara KrausDepartment of Psychology, LMU Munich, Akademiestr. 7, 80799 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8007-0321
Frieda MensingDepartment for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Context of Sexual Violence, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Auf dem Campus 1, 24943 Flensburg, Germany.ORCID 0009-0006-4197-8947
Simone PülschenDepartment for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Context of Sexual Violence, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Auf dem Campus 1, 24943 Flensburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9439-9240

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German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) 01SR2001
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Abstract

Research is needed on the myths regarding child sexual abuse in order to address commonly held misconceptions in persons training for professional careers in relevant fields for child protection. We present our translated, validated, and expanded Child Sexual Abuse Myth Scale (CSAMS-G). It was tested on a sample of 569 students studying either education, social work, law, or policing. Results of confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good model fit for our assumed factorial structure. Acceptable results on internal consistency were confirmed with McDonald's ω. We also present the first results on the acceptance of child sexual abuse myths in our sample. Overall, myth acceptance was low, but a few exceptions were found, especially for the newly added items. We found group differences in factor scores for gender as well as between survivors and non-survivors of child sexual abuse.

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child sexual abuse mythsconfirmatory factor analysisscale constructionsurvivor attitudes

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