Abstract The purpose of this research is to identify the hypothesis, variables, concepts, and to specify what the author intended to do with this study. The main focus in the study is the effects of child abuse and violence exposure of an adolescent as a child and the behaviors that have or have not occurred within time. The participants in the study range from age, gender, as well as race. This will help evaluate the effects that have been present or developed internally and externally.
The article that I have been analyzing is about the effects of child abuse and exposure to domestic violence on adolescents. Evaluating if there are any inner and outer outcomes within the …show more content…
The nominal concepts for each concept were: withdrawn, somatic complaints, anxious/depressed, depression, delinquent behavior, aggressive behavior, delinquency. For every nominal concept there was specific items explained within them but only listed some. For example: these were internal nominal concepts, Withdrawn (7 items): shy/timid, would rather be alone, and secretive. Somatic complaints (10 items): feeling overtired, stomach aches, and aches/pains. Anxious/depressed (16 items): feeling unloved, worthless, and nervous/tense. These were the external nominal concepts; delinquent behavior (12 items): steals at home, sets fires, and lack guilt, Aggressive behavior (20 items) argues, disobedient at school, and mean to others. I don’t think any of the concepts were treated as unidimensional because most of them were treated as multidimensional. Violence exposure had included; official records of abuse cases, mothers’ reports of their disciplining of their preschool and school-age children, adolescents’ retrospective reports of those same discipline practices used by …show more content…
On the other hand, there were some data that they wanted more from and that was from the adolescent with violence exposure. Also, there were some participants who didn’t continue with the study but don’t know the reason behind it. All the data was clear naming what the participants had experienced more of as a male, female, child abuse, domestic violence, both exposures and none. It was presented clearly and understandable for the reader to acknowledge the different categories and other statistical