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The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of sexual abuse on sexual delinquency and risky sexual behavior in juvenile delinquents and to examine the mediation effect of borderline personality traits. A total of 111 adolescents on probation in Seoul, Kyunggi and Cheongju completed the questionnaires, including Child Sexual Experience Inventory, Korean Personality Assessment Inventory of Borderline Features Scale, Sexual Delinquency Scale, and Risky Sexual Behavior Scale. The results of this study were as follows. First, significant correlations were found among sexual abuse, sexual delinquency, risky sexual behavior, and borderline personality traits. Second, sexual abuse directly affected both sexual delinquency and risky sexual behavior, and the mediation effect of borderline personality traits was only significant for risky sexual behavior. It is presumed that unstable and impulsive interpersonal relationships and affective features that stand out in the borderline personality trait are more related to exposing themselves to sexually dangerous environment either voluntarily or involuntarily rather than causing sexual delinquency at the level of infringing the laws. Implications and limitations of this study were also discussed.
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