Open AccessDiscover your Child: Is He/ She Abused by You Inside the House?
Author(s) -
Intisar Turki Aldarabah,
Reham Almohtadi,
Mohammad Abo Alrub
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of studies in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2162-6952
DOI - 10.5296/jse.v5i3.6378
Subject(s) - statistic , psychology , measure (data warehouse) , stability (learning theory) , social psychology , developmental psychology , statistics , mathematics , computer science , data mining , machine learning
This research seeks to reveal to the parents if they are abusing their children without knowledge inside the house. In order to answer the study questions, an instrument was developed to measure the abused behavior extent of including the items of abused. The instrument consisted of 50 items that involved five subscales The instrument’s validity was tested through introducing it to specialists’ reviewers. Also the stability analysis was tested by re-analysis. The statistic data and frequencies were used to investigate the availability of the abused behavior. The study results showed that the mothers do not have the sufficient knowledge about the concept children abuse, inside the house, since the responses to all of the dimensions were below the medium, and some of the fathers and mothers abuse their children thinking that this is one of disciplines to make them acquire the desired behavior, and preventing them from the abnormal behavior.