Prognosis of Codependency based on Types of Abuses in the Female Primary School Teachers in Ghaemshahr City

A codependence is a person who allows others to influence him/her by their mistreatment, and to create an obsessive desire in him/her to control and change them. This study was aimed at predicting the Codependency based on records of sexual, physical, and emotional harassment of parents of female primary school teachers in Ghaemshahr city.

The study plan is casual-comparative and uses the regression method. The statistical population of the present study involved the female primary school teachers in Ghaemshahr city, 150 of whom were selected by using simple random sampling method; then, the teachers filled in the 16-item Codependency Questionnaire (Spin & Fisher, 1990), and the Child Abuse and Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) (Bernstein & Fink, 1998). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and regression by spss. 22.

The results of the present study showed that the records of the emotional harassment are positively and significantly correlated with codependency, and the predictor variable predicted the affliction with the codependency (p<0.01). The findings indicated that the physical, sexual more assaulted the runaway girls and emotional harassment from their family head or members than their peer group in a way that these factors were very influential on the runaway girls (p<0.01). Also, there is a correlation between experiencing physical harassment and codependency but, there was no significant relationship between the records of experiencing the parents’ sexual harassment and the codependency.

It can be concluded that there is a relationship between codependency and emotional harassment and physical harassment.