Long term effect of childhood abuses on parenting competencies : how the self-efficacy belief of parents who were abused as children is modulated by social, conjugal and family support ?

Analyze the effect of abuse on self-efficacy belief of parents who were abused when they were child and analyze how social, conjugal and family supports influence the effect of child abuse on parental self-efficacy belief.
We diffused an online survey. Participants answered to the “Childhood Trauma Questionnaire”, the “Questionnaire d’Auto-Évaluation de la Compétence Parentale”, the “Parental bonding instrument”, the “Echelle d’Ajustement du couple” and the “Echelle des Provisions sociales”, which respectively evaluated the abuse during childhood, the self-efficacy belief, the parent’s presence during childhood, the conjugal satisfaction and the social support.
We collected 828 complete protocols which showed that self-efficacy belief was lower for parents who were abused during their childhood. Nevertheless, only one of two components of the self-efficacy beliefs was altered by childhood maltreatment: indeed, the efficiency belief was not altered by childhood maltreatment while the satisfaction about their relationship with their child was lower for parents who were abused during their childhood.
Moreover, the self-efficacy belief of parents who were sexually abused but who were not victim of any other kind of abuse (physical, psychological and neglect) during their childhood was not significantly different than the self-efficacy belief of parent who were not abused during their childhood. On the other hand, it was higher than the self-efficacy belief of parents who were victim of other kinds of abuse.
A main difference between sexual abuse and the other kinds of abuse (physical, psychological and neglect) comes from elements of family and social context in which they grew up.