Nivel de inadaptación en los hijos testigos de violencia familiar

Resumo

Exposition to intimate-partner violence is a risk factor for children´s mental health. In this context, several researches have shown that the exposure to gender violence affects children´s well-being with effects on his/her physical, psychological, behavioral and scholar development. Specifically, violence at home has a high impact on the behavioral development and on the adaptation levels (Paterson, Carter, Gao, Cowley-Malcolm y Iusitini, 2008), being related to behavioral and self-control difficulties, lack of empathy and problems for scholar integration. Furthermore, children witnessing violence in domestic setting may show aggressive behavioral or suffer social isolation (Lawson, 2001; Patró et al., 2005). Having this in mind, a study was designed with the aim for knowing if the exposure to intimate-partner violence is related with (in)adaptation levels in 55 children from divorced families, 22 of them witnesses of family violence. As for to measure the (in)adaptation levels (personal, family, scholar and social) the TAMAI Questionnaire (Hernández, 1990) was applied. Results exhibited a higher level of social (in)adaptation for those witnesses of family violence.