Prediction of emotional disorders based on severity of emotional abuse in children

Abuse and emotional neglect is one of the damaging factors to the function and development in children and its effects can often be seen in their adult life. The aim of this study is to predict of emotional disorders based on the severity of emotional abuse in students.

  Method of this study is the descriptive-analytic method. Research community included all first high school students in Jajarm. 519 students were selected through purposive sampling method. These students completed adolescent self-report questionnaire and emotional abuse questionnaire. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation and regression) were used.

The results showed that emotional abuse is directly related to emotional disorders in adolescents. In the other words, the symptoms of the emotional disorder in adolescents increase with increasing emotional anxiety.

The results showed that emotional abuse is related to emotional disorders in the student. Therefore, teachers and managers should pay attention to this issue.