Impact of Perceived Parental Acceptance and Rejection on Emotional Development among Abused and Non-Abused Children

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to explore the impact of parental acceptance-rejection on emotional development among abused and non-abused children. This study has used quantitative research technique and the questionnaire survey was used to collect the data. The sample of this study was consists of total 400 respondents (200 boys and 200 girls) and data was randomly collected from the different government schools of Multan. The age range was restricted to 14 years. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data and three scales were used for the data collection. Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) Urdu version, constructed by Rohner, Saaverda and Granum (1980) separate for father and mother was used which consists of 60 items for each. The Child Abuses scale Urdu version designed by Haque (1981) was used which consists of 34 items. This scale includes further four categories Physical Abuse, Physical Neglect, Emotional Abuse and Emotional Neglect. The Urdu version of Emotional Development scale developed by Afzal (2002) was used with total 34 items of the scale. The results of the present study shows that there is a significant impact of parental acceptance-rejection on emotional development among children. The results also shows that emotional development of the abused children is disturb as compared to non-abused children. The findings further revealed that there is a significant difference among abused and non-abused children on mother and father parental acceptance-rejection and there is also a significant differences among boys and girls on mother and father parental acceptance-rejection.