가정폭력노출 실태분석을 통한 피해아동의 심리사회적 적응력 향상방안 연구 = A Study on Improvement in Victim Children`s Psycho-social Adjustment through Exposure Conditions Analysis of Domestic Violence

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is a research on the psycho­social maladjustment of children who are exposed to domestic violence. It attempts to find out how children`s experience of domestic violence influences on their psycho­social maladjustment, and to present plans for improvement in adjustment. The SPSS 10.0 for Windows was used to analyze data obtained through 519 children who live in Gwangju·Chonnam area. Major findings are as follows: 1. Prevalence rates of exposure to domestic violence are considerably serious; 80.2% child abuse by parents, 46.2% witness of father­to­mother abuse. 2. Child abuse and wife abuse have close relationship in their occurrence and severity. 3. Internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and social competence of children are different by the child abuse, the wife abuse, and the style of exposure to domestic violence. 4. Child abuse have the strongest impact on the children`s psycho­social adjustment. As the result of the study, it concludes that the exposure to domestic violence has a negative effect on the children`s psycho­social adjustment. In order to improve psycho­social adjustment of children exposed to domestic violence, various plans are suggested in this study.