Self-concept and social competence of university student victims of childhood physical abuse.

Autor: Lopez MA; Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-4235, USA., Heffer RW
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child abuse & neglect [Child Abuse Negl] 1998 Mar; Vol. 22 (3), pp. 183-95.
DOI: 10.1016/s0145-2134(97)00136-1
Abstrakt: Objective: This study examined the impact of childhood physical abuse on self-concept and social competency of older adolescents and assessed perception of parental relationships as a mediator for consequences of abuse on social adjustment.
Method: College undergraduates (n = 660) completed: (a) the Social Skills Inventory (SSI), a measure of social competence, (b) the Self-Description Questionnaire-III (SDQ-III), a multidimensional measure of self-concept, (c) the parent scales of the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA), a measure of perceived parental support, and (d) the Assessing Environments-III (AE-III), a retrospective report of family environment and parenting practices.
Results: Analyses, controlling for socioeconomic status and ethnicity, showed that a history of physical abuse was predictive of current self-concept, but did not predict social competence as an older adolescent. Further analyses lend support to a mediational model, suggesting that physical abuse has a negative impact on self-concept through its negative effect on parent-child relationships.
Conclusions: The findings indicate that childhood physical abuse has a negative impact on the self-concept of the older adolescent. However, this impact can be better understood by investigating its potentially harmful effect on parent-child relationships. The impact of physical abuse on adolescents' social competence was not supported in this study.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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