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KMID : 0358120020280040351
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Journal of the Korean Public Health Association
2002 Volume.28 No. 4 p.351 ~ p.362
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A Study on the Status of Child Abuse and Its Related Variables
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Ha Eun-Kyung
Park Chun-Man
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Abstract
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This study was performed to provide the basic data necessary to prevent child abuse through an investigation of the current status of child abuse and an elucidation of its related affecting variables. Using a questionnaire, data were collected from 666 students, who were the second, fourth, and sixth graders attending at one primary school in Daegu city, and their parents from June 17 to July 19, 2002. The results obtained in this study are summarized as follows: On the recognition of abuse, both the children and their parents had a high recognition level in a severe physical abuse and a sexual abuse, whereas they had a low recognition level in a slight physical abuse, an emotional abuse, and a neglect. The parents had a higher recognition level than the children in a physical abuse. However, the children had a higher recognition level than the parents in an emotional abuse, a sexual abuse, and neglect. On the frequency of abuse, male students were more experienced than female students (p<0.001), and low graders were more experienced than high graders (p<0.05), younger mother (p<0.01), parents having a high stress (p<0.01), parents having a nuclear family (p<0.05), parents having a low recognition on abuse (p<0.06), parents having a low conjugal affection (p<0.05), parents having a bad fostering attitude (p<0.001), parents having a more experience of abuse in childhood (p<0.001), and parents having a more experience of worrying about child´s matters(p<0.001) had a high frequency of child abuse. A physical abuse had a high positive correlation with an emotional abuse(r=0.604), but had a low positive correlation with neglect(r=0.285). And there was a moderately high positive correlation between neglect and an emotional abuse(r=0.515).
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KEYWORD
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child abuse, neglect
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