This study was attempt to survey the recent trends of child abuse and to explore the related variables. The subjects were 436 children in the fifth and sixth grade of the elementary school in Taegu and 436 their parents by coupling-data. The main resu...
This study was attempt to survey the recent trends of child abuse and to explore the related variables. The subjects were 436 children in the fifth and sixth grade of the elementary school in Taegu and 436 their parents by coupling-data. The main results of this study are as follows:
1. Significant variables related to the child were child's sex and friendship. And significant variables related to the parents were parental unemployment, child rearing attitudes, violence experience, life satisfaction. Then significant variables related to the home environment were family type, residential style, harmony of the home and martal violence.
2. The most significant variable in all type of child abuse was the variable related to the parents. Additionally marital violence was the most influential variable in all types of child abuse.