The expression of personality among adolescents exposed to interpersonal violence
Abstract
The level of crime in South Africa as reflected by crime statistics affects a high number of \nadolescents. Trauma and stress associated with interpersonal violence can adversely affect \nthe neurobiology of the individual, since social, emotional and cognitive influences interact \nin multifaceted ways with neurobiological systems to affect every-day adaptive functioning. \nThis study was embarked upon to determine the difference in the expression of personality \nbetween adolescents exposed to community related interpersonal violence and those not \nexposed to such violence. The 183 research participants were selected from a group of 335 \ngrade 12 learners from a single secondary school in a middle class community. The \nparticipants were placed into two sample groups by means of purposive sampling as \nfollows: Sample 1 consisted of all the research participants that reported exposure to \ncommunity related interpersonal violence during the past 5 years on the self-reporting \nquestionnaire (n = 93). The research participants that did not report exposure to such \nviolence formed Sample 2 (n = 90). \nReflecting on the adolescent’s emotional, adaptive functioning and referring to high levels \nof anxiety and feelings of worthlessness, certain factors of the 16PF questionnaire were \npredicted to show a statistical significant difference after exposure to community related \ninterpersonal violence after a period of 3 to 5 years. To assess the differences in personality…
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