Article: Measuring Japanese mothers' perception of child abuse: development of a Japanese version of the child abuse blame scale - physical abuse (CABS-PA-J).(Research)

Authors: Masaki Fujimoto (corresponding author) [1]; Taiko Hirose [1]; Takeo Nakayama [2]; Hiroji Okawa [3]; Itsurou Takigawa [4]

Background

An increasing number of child abuse cases are being reported in Japan. Accordingly, social concern regarding child abuse has also grown over the last several years. Several contributing factors to this phenomenon have been pointed out: The number of nuclear families, who receive less sufficient support for childcare and thus may abuse children, has increased with changes in society [1] and society has become more aware of child abuse due to frequent media coverage of the problem, which may have resulted in ...

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