Role of psycho-social variables in dealing with trauma of child sexual abuse
Keywords:
sexual abuse, trauma, family environment, social support, self esteemAbstract
Objective: The study was undertaken to determine “Role of Psycho-Social variables in dealing with Trauma of Child Sexual Abuse”. Two different areas were taken for the present study such as Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, Jalandhar district of Punjab, 100 subjects were taken (50 subjects were male and 50 female subjects) purposefully and were matched age, sex, education, occupation, family environment scale, self-esteem scale, sexual and physical abuse questionnaire, childhood trauma questionnaire, multidimensional scale of social support, were employed to each of the subjects in two sessions.The following standardized questionnaires will be used in the study and will be administered through both offline and online mode. Results revealed that male subjects showed more prominence in family environment and social support. Female subjects showed more prominence in self-esteem in the exposure of sexual and physical abuse female subjects were found to be more exposed in this regard and male subjects were more exposed to childhood trauma. This may be due to that, among young adults male subjects are getting more access to family environment and social support and female subjects are commonly exposed to sexual and physical abuse whereas male subjects are getting more traumas in childhood in terms of physical abused.
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