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Family Violence and its Impact on Children’s Mental Health During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Mental Health in Education

Abstract

This research aims to identify the types and prevalence rates of family violence against children during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. It also aims to identify the mental health problems those child victims of family violence develop, and the differences between children who experience high and low family violence rates. The research was conducted on a sample of 160 child victims of family violence in primary schools. The researchers applied an assessment of family violence of their design, and the results were very high. Then they applied an assessment of mental health problems they designed and which included 8 problems which all sample members suffered from. The scale was based on an open question, and the results showed that the violence types with high rates (compared to average and low rates) were ranked as follows: threat with violence, moral violence, social violence, economic violence, and lastly physical violence. The results also showed increase in the 8 mental health problems high rate (compared to the average and low rates), and the problems were as follows: lying, destructivity, impulsivity, aggressiveness, fear, night terror attacks, self-harm and finally self-hate. Furthermore, this research addresses the high rates of family violence's negative impact (compared to the low rate) on the increase of mental health problems. F test result was (40.11), with a higher significant difference higher than (0.01). At the end, the researchers concluded several important recommendations.

DOI

10.21608/ihites.2020.42946.1035

Keywords

Family violence, Mental Health Problems, COVID-19 pandemic, children

Authors

First Name

zeinab

Last Name

shokair

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Affiliation

Faculty of Education, Department of Mental Health, Tanta University, Egypt

Email

zeinabshokair2020@gmail.com

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First Name

Eid

Last Name

Abo Hamza

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Affiliation

College of Graduate Studies, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain

Email

eidhamza@edu.tanta.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0003-0901-8170

Volume

1

Article Issue

3

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12642

Issue Date

2020-08-01

Receive Date

2020-09-14

Publish Date

2020-08-01

Page Start

32

Page End

39

Print ISSN

2682-3918

Online ISSN

2682-3926

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https://ijites.journals.ekb.eg/article_115746.html

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https://ijites.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=115746

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1,128

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Publication Title

International Journal of Instructional Technology and Educational Studies

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https://ijites.journals.ekb.eg/

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Family Violence and its Impact on Children’s Mental Health During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Created At

22 Jan 2023