Investigating the Factors Affecting the Incidence of Child Abuse (Meta-Analysis of Existing Studies)

Abstract

The importance of children as the future makers of a society, on the one hand, and the impact of pleasant or unpleasant childhood experiences on children's future lives, has drawn the attention of many researchers to the social harms of childhood, including child abuse. Such attention to the phenomenon or, more accurately, the social problem of child abuse has led to much research in recent years on the factors affecting child abuse. The present study seeks to investigate the most important factors affecting child abuse in research conducted in Iran using the meta-analysis method. The statistical population of the research is all valid scientific researches in the form of articles and dissertations that have been published in the years 2001 to 1399 on the subject of child abuse. Finally, among the examined documents, 18 selection documents were analyzed using CMA software. The results of the study showed that the variables of conflict and difference in family relationships (0.602) had the most impact and the variable of mother's job (0.222) had the least impact on the occurrence of child abuse.

Keywords

• "child abuse"
• "meta-analysis"
• "victim characteristics"
• "family characteristics"
• "family conflicts"