AUTHOR : 남순현
INFORMATION : page. 185~201 / 2009 Vol.16 No.3
athological interactions between parents and children cause negative results such as marriage break ups, child abuse and psychological illness due to distorted relationships with parents. Just as violation begets violation, abuse from parents during childhood is very likely to continue as abuse by their own children when they grow up. Therefore, this research intends to examine the process of intergenerational transmission of childhood physical abuse and family differentiation levels. It will do so through the process of intergenerational transmission between three generations mothers and daughters through the mediating effects of childhood aggressiveness. The subjects of this research are 220 pairs of elementary school 5th and 6th grade girls and their mothers, and the research survey period is from Sept. 16 to Oct. 31, 2008. By reporting the relationships of girls to their mothers, and that of mothers and grandmothers, it was possible to explore the influence of past between mother and daughter relationship experiences. In doing so, this research explored the level of family differentiation, childhood physical abuse experiences, childhood aggressiveness and childhood misconduct between mothers and daughters over three generations. As a result of examining the intergenerational transmission process of childhood physical abuse between mothers and daughters over three generations and the mediating effects of childhood aggressiveness through the AMOS statistical program, it is shown that childhood aggressiveness has a mediating effect on childhood physical abuse when the abuse affects girl\'s misconduct for three generations rather than only for two generations. In other words, girls that experienced childhood abuse do not directly express violative action in response to the physical abuse by their mothers, but physical abuse by mothers tends to cause problematic behavior by being internalized as childhood aggressiveness. Therefore, this research suggests that the intergenerational transmission process of childhood abuse is a serious issue, and further argues that child abuse not only inhibits healthy development of the child but also probably repeats the vicious cycle that leads to abuse of the victim’s own children when they grow up. Key words : three generation, childhood physical abuse, intergenerational transmission process, family differentiation level, childhood aggressiveness, childhood misconduct
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