Adverse childhood experiences, siblings relationships, sadistic tendencies and depressive symptomatology in young adults
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2024-05-06
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UMT Lahore
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This study aimed to explore the relationship between adverse childhood experiences, siblings’ relationships, sadistic tendencies and depressive symptomatology. This aims to find the impact of adverse childhood experiences on the nature and expression of sibling’s relationships which further affects the sibling’s bond and lead to the development of negative behavioral tendencies such as sadistic tendencies and depressive symptomatology in young adults. For this purpose, a sample of 300 participants were taken from private and government institutes of Lahore aged from 17-28. Stratified sampling strategy was used to collect the data and the study was carried out using the cross-sectional research design. Three indigenous scales such as Adverse Childhood Experiences, Sadistic Tendencies, DASS for depression. Furthermore, a scale was developed to measure the nature of sibling’s relationships and factor analysis was run. Three factors named Supportive Siblings Relationships, Moral/Spiritual and Conflictual Siblings Relationships were explored, and 49 items were retained. The data was analyzed through SPSS version 21, using descriptive analysis, correlation, t-test, Hierarchal Regression, and ANOVA. The results indicated that there is a significant positive relationship between adverse childhood experiences, siblings’ relationships, sadistic tendencies and depressive symptomatology. The gender and type of institute doesn’t have significant relationship between sadistic tendencies and depressive symptomatology. However, the supportive siblings relationship showed strong significant relationship with depressive symptomatology and other two factors showed weaker positive association with depression in young adults.