Impacts of Physical and Psychological Abuse of Children on Family Demographic Variables
Abstract
The aims of this study was to show relationship between physical and psychological abuse of children and family demographical variables. A random sample of study representing TTU students has been selected for that purpose; it was consisted of (279), of whom were (127) females and (170) males. The findings show that there are various types of abuse but psychological abuse is the most common type. Also, females are more exposed to psychological abuse than males. In addition, the findings proved a relationship between abuse and the number of family members. Therefore, the higher the family members, the more probable abuse becomes.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jssp.2007.232.236
Copyright: © 2007 Lama M. Al-Qaisy. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Child abuse
- physical abuse
- psychological abuse
- sexual abuse