Adolescent Children's Domestic Violence Exposure & Psycho-social Maladjustment - Focusing on Middle School Student Children's Wife Abuse Witnessing and Child Abuse Victim -

The purpose of this study is to examine how adolescent children's exposure experience of domestic violence influences their psycho-social maladjustment. The SPSS 10.0 for Windows was used to analyze data obtained through 589 adolescents who attend middle school in Gwangju area. Major findings are as follows: 1. Domestic violence exposure in adolescent children was considerably serious; 84.4% child abuse by parents, 66.0% witness of father-to-mother abuse. 2. Child abuse and wife abuse had close relation in occurrence and severity. 3. Internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and social competence of adolescents were different by the victim of child abuse, the witness of wife abuse, and the style of domestic violence exposure. 4. Domestic violence exposure had a positive impact on the adolescent children's psycho-social maladjustment.

청소년기 자녀의 가정폭력 노출과 심리사회적 부적응 -중학생 자녀의 아내학대 목격과 자녀학대 피해를 중심으로-