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- Title
Prevalence of educational neglect and educational abuse in elementary students.
- Authors
Qarebagh, Tahere Noparvar; Zeinali, Ali
- Abstract
Introduction: Everyone's personality develops in childhood. Any educational neglect and abuse cause serious damage to healthy development. This research aimed to investigate the prevalence of educational neglect and educational abuse in elementary students. Materials and Methods: The statistical population of this descriptive study consisted of all second-period elementary students of Urmia city-Iran. Three hundred and eighty-five students were selected through random cluster sampling. All of them completed the student’s educational neglect and educational abuse scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS-19, descriptive statistics, and variance analysis. Results: The results showed high and very high educational abuse in 23.8% and 19.2% of cases, respectively. Also, the results indicated high and very high educational neglect in 29.6% and 18.2% of the students, respectively. Also, the findings showed no significant difference between educational neglect and educational abuse in the second-period elementary students based on gender and educational grade. Conclusion: Based on the findings, the prevalence of educational neglect and educational abuse among second-period elementary students was high. Therefore, school counselors should hold workshops for teachers and parents to reduce educational neglect and abuse.
- Subjects
UNILATERAL neglect; CHILD abuse; PERSONALITY development; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STUDENT counselors
- Publication
Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health, 2023, Vol 25, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
1028-6918
- Publication type
Article