Psychological Effects on Sexually Abused Children in NWFP
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2004
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Department of Psychology, University of Peshawar. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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The purpose of the present research was to investigate the psychological effects of child sexual abuse (CSA) on adults. One hundreds male adults ranging in age eighteen to thirty years from the different cities of North Western Frontier Province, Pakistan acted as subjects. Half of them having the experience ofchild sexual abuse in their childhood and the remaining fifty subjects were non-victims of CSA. Social functioning, depression, suicide ideation, hopelessness,
negative self-evaluation, hostility and suicide probability are the major symptoms andpsychological effects investigated in the study. According to the symptoms,clinical observations, and behaviors ofthe victims of CSA, a scale comprising 17 itemsJor assessment of social functioning of the subjects was device. The reliability of the scale was quite high. Salma Shah Depression Scale (SSDS 1992) was used for assessment of depression amoxg the subjects. Suicide Probability Scale (SPS) measured suicide ideation and suicide probability. The same scales, SPS containing the subscales mentioned above, assessed hostility, hopelessness, negative self-evaluation and suicide probability . Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) measured depression and suicide ideation among the subjects.The findings of the research indicate that there is a significant difference on depression, suicide ideation, hostility, hopelessness and suicide ideation among the victims of CSA and non-victims. Social functioning of the victims of CSA is poor as compared to non-abused adults. The findings indicate non-significant difference) on sub-scale of SPSfor assessment ofnegative-self-evaluation ofthe sexual abused and non-abusedgroups. Non-significant differences areformulatedin terms of education and age of the subjects indicated that the age and education ofthe subjects did not affect the results and the intensity of psychological effects. The results demonstrated that social functioning, depression, suicide ideation, hostility, hopelessness and suicide ideation are significantly higher among the victims of CSA adults as compared to non-victims of the present sample.
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Shah, A. A. (2004). Psychological Effects on Sexually Abused Children in NWFP (Doctoral dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR).