Adverse childhood experience, self-blaming and parent child conflicts in university students
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2024
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UMT.Lahore
Abstract
This study aimed to find out the association between adverse childhood experiences, self blaming and parent child conflicts in adults. It was hypothesized that there will be a relationship between adverse childhood experiences, self-blaming and parent child conflict in students. It was also hypothesized that adverse childhood experiences and self-blaming will likely to predict parent child conflict in students. A correlational research design has been used to collect data from (N = 200) students by using convenient sampling technique. Adverse childhood experiences questionnaire, self-blaming scale and parent child conflict scale were used as assessment measures. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyze the data, including correlation and regression analysis. Findings of this study illustrated a negative relationship between adverse childhood experience with self-blaming and parent child conflict. Also, both adverse childhood experiences and self-blaming predicted parent child conflict, while adverse childhood experiences have stronger negative relationship with parent child conflict. Parent child conflict shown to be positively increased with increasing self-blaming. The results are discussed in the light of the previous literature. The findings can be used for the family counselling.