Relationship between junior high school students witnessing of parental domestic violence and their behavior problems
10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2020.12.019
- VernacularTitle:初中生目睹父母家庭暴力与其行为问题的关系
- Author:
XING Chaoguo, LIU Lu
1
Author Information
1. Department of Sociology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing(100083), China
- Publication Type:期刊文章
- Keywords:
Domestic violence;
Behavior;
Mental health;
Analysis of variance;
Students
- From:
Chinese Journal of School Health
2020;41(12):1840-1842
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To investigate the relationship between witness of parental domestic violence and behavior problems among middle school students, and to provide reference for furthur promote the research in this area.
Methods:A total of 1 820 junior high school students from 5 middle schools selected from Wenzhou city, Haidian district in Beijing, Jinan city, Wuhu city and Qujing city were administered with Child Exposure to Domestic Violence(CEDV) Scale and the Youth Self-Report 1991.
Results:Totally 69.5% junior high school students have witnessed their parents quarrel, 39.0% students have witnessed their parents verbal abuse and threats, 25.1% students have witnessed their parents having broken something at home, and 13.8% have witnessed their parents hurting bodies. The total level of students witnessing of parental domestic violence had a significant positive correlation with internalizing syndromes, externalizing syndromes, total problem scores(r=0.39, 0.39, 0.44, P<0.01). There were significant differences in YSR introverted symptom group, extroverted symptom group and total score among double no group, only witnessing parental domestic violence group, direct domestic violence group and double violence group(χ2=215.27, 203.23, 252.24, P<0.01).
Conclusion:The proportion of witness of parental domestic violence among middle school students is relatively high, which has significant impact on junior high school students behavior problems.
