Despite robust research linking trauma events to the commission of sexual harm by youth, the majority of victims do not become victimizers, imploring us to study potential interceding influences. Some research indicates that intermediary factors like attachment characteristics, trauma symptomatology, and executive functioning may be critical in understanding sexual harm committed by youth. This study explored relationships between trauma events, trauma symptoms, and attachment characteristics, and their relationship to executive functioning in a sample of 196 youth who committed sexual harm. Results revealed bivariate associations between trauma events, symptomatology, and maternal attachment characteristics. Structural equation modeling revealed numerous direct and indirect effects on the path to deficits in executive functioning, and that sexual abuse, above and beyond other forms of traumatic events, contributed to executive functioning deficits via trauma symptoms. The results are contextualized and implications are discussed.

尽管有强有力的研究将创伤事件与青少年的性伤害联系起来，但大多数受害者并没有成为施害者，这恳求我们研究潜在的调解影响。一些研究表明，依恋特征、创伤症状和执行功能等中间因素可能对理解青少年所犯的性伤害至关重要。本研究以 196 名遭受性伤害的青少年为样本，探讨了创伤事件、创伤症状和依恋特征之间的关系，以及它们与执行功能的关系。结果揭示了创伤事件、症状和母亲依恋特征之间的双变量关联。结构方程模型揭示了对执行功能缺陷路径的许多直接和间接影响，并且除了其他形式的创伤事件之外，性虐待通过创伤症状导致执行功能缺陷。对结果进行了背景化，并讨论了影响。