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    Child abuse, aggression and deviant behavior among adolescents
    (UMT Lahore, 2020) SIDRA MUSHTAQ
    The present study was intended to find out the relationship between child abuse, aggression and deviant behaviour among adolescents. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be a relationship between child abuse, aggression and deviant behaviour. It was hypothesized that child abuse is likely to predict deviant behaviour. It was also hypothesized that aggression is likely to predict deviant behaviour. Moreover, it was also hypothesized that aggression is likely to mediate between child abuse and deviant behaviour. Correlational research design was used to assess the relationship between variables. Purposive sampling technique was used to recruit the sample. The sample comprised of (N= 300) school and college students with age range 13-19 years. The questionnaires for collecting data included the Child Abuse Scale developed by Mohammadkhani et al. (2003), The Aggression Scale by Orpinas and Frankowski (2001) and Deviant Behavior Scale by Mushtaq and Kausar (2018) were used for the study. Results revealed that there was a positive relationship between child abuse, aggression and deviant behavior. It was also revealed that child abuse and aggression positively predicted deviant behaviour in adolescents. Moreover, child abuse positively correlated with aggression and aggression mediated the relationship between child abuse and deviant behaviour These results have implications in various educational settings for increasing awareness of parents about how much responsive they should become for the better upbringing of their child and provide better understanding about how aggression and child abuse can lead to deviant behaviour.