Abuse and neglect in adolescents of Jammu,India: The role of gender,family structure,and parental education |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde e do Desporto, Universidade Europeia, Lisbon, Portugal;2. National Center for Psychotraumatology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark;1. Program in Public Health, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York;2. Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York;3. Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York;4. Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;5. Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Abstract: | The present study aimed to assess the factor structure of the childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ; Bernstein & Fink, 1998), and use it to describe the prevalence of abuse and neglect in Indian adolescents, and its associations with gender, family structure (nuclear vs. joint), and level of parental education. Participants were 702 adolescents from Jammu in the age range of 13–17 years (41.5% female). We found acceptance for a four-factor intercorrelated model for the CTQ with emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect (5 emotional neglect and 2 physical neglect items) factors following a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Forty-one to sixty-one percent of adolescents reported maltreatment which is higher in comparison with CTQ based studies from the West. Analysis of CFA with covariates (MIMIC model) indicated that males, and adolescents of less educated mothers’ and from joint families reported higher abuse and neglect, and sexual abuse, respectively, while fathers’ education level was not associated with abuse or neglect. Implications of these findings are highlighted. |
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| Keywords: | CTQ Adolescents MIMIC Prevalence Gender Family India |
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