The relationship between parental child abuse and psychological hardiness and resilience in students under the supervision of the welfare department

The present study aims at determining the relationship between parental child abuse and psychological hardiness and resilience in students under the supervision of the welfare department.

 In this descriptive – correlational study, all students under the supervision of Kazeroon welfare department in 2014-2015 were selected on clustering random sampling. In order to gather the data, the Connor resilience questionnaire, Ahvaz psychological hardiness and childhood Trauma Questionaire (CTQ) were used and then they were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient and bivariate regression.

The results are indicative of being a negative and significant relationship (p <0 /001) between parental child abuse psychological hardiness and resilience.  Stepwise regression showed that the role of child physical abuse is greater than other variables. Also, emotional abuse plays a more significant role in children’s resilience compared to other variables.

Dysfunctional and undesirable relationships in families and practicing wrong educational acts such as assault, deprivation, child abuse and violence against children lead to variability in mental health and weakness in resilience and controlling power.