Abstract :
Child abuse continues intensively, nowadays. According to the different sources, it can be said that children are abused by the adults from every levels of socio-economic and educational status. There are many related studies in recent researches such as teachers’ awareness levels of child abuse, domestic violence and the effects of abuse on children. The aim of this study is to investigate the relations between mothers’ abuse potential who have 4-6 aged child. 235 mothers participated to this study. “Abuse Awareness Scala-Parent Form” was used in order to assess the participants’ potentials of abuse. Maximum variation sampling method was used to determine the participants. Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis were performed to analyze the data. According to the results there are significant correlations between the potential of abuse and age of mother, employment status, gender of children (p .05). According to the Multiple Regression results, age of mother and employment status predict the potential of abuse. Some suggestions were made according to these results.
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Abuse , mother , child , preschool
