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A study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between protective personality characteristics and the results of maltreatment among female teenagers and to assess whether the development of protective behavioral attributes was related to the age of onset of maltreatment. A questionnaire was given to 33 maltreated female teenagers and to a control group of 112 female adolescents, to measure personality traits such as self-esteem, depression and control orientation. Protective characteristics were also observed more often among adolescents who were maltreated during adolescence, than among those maltreated in childhood.
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Children cope with maltreatment in a variety of ways. The age of the child and the type of maltreatment, whether abused, neglected, marginally maltreated or both abused and neglected, are factors that affect their coping strategies in adverse home environments. Children's coping strategies are also coherent, though not necessarily the same, across situations and relationships. These can range from cooperation, compulsive compliance, difficultness and passivity.
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Rates of child maltreatment cases are rising in the US and the nation is already facing an emergency situation on this problem. Powerful social forces are needed to counteract the problem since child maltreatment is a social and psychological indicator of community trouble. Public and all-out support is needed for evaluative reseach that would pinpoint elements of community development essential for the eradication of child maltreatment.
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