Child abuse, aggression and deviant behavior among adolescents
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2020
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
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.