Repercussões da exposição à violência conjugalnas características emocionais dos filhos: revisão sistemática da literatura

This study aimed to review scientifi c production about the effects of direct and indirect exposure to marital violence on emotional characteristics of children aged 0-12 years (2002-2014). Based on a combination of descriptors on the subject, 14 empirical papers published in the last 12 years, one national and 13 international indexed in different databases were selected. The results suggest a variety of effects related to the exposure to violence on development of children in short, medium and long term, especially concerning externalizing and internalizing behavior problems that were mostly accessed by the report of the mother and /or the child himself. Regarding methodological aspects of the articles included in the fi nal selection, all of them are quantitative and most of them are cross-sectional. The need for additional research on this theme, mainly in Brazil, is also discussed. The limitations of the investigated