Psychological Trauma and Corporal Punishment

Asghar Ali, Mushtaq Ahmad Malik and Itbar Khan
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Asghar Ali: Assistant Professor
Mushtaq Ahmad Malik: Assistant Professor,
Itbar Khan: Lecturer,

Global Social Sciences Review, 2019, vol. 4, issue 2, 138-147

Abstract: The study analyzes Psychological Trauma as a result of Corporal Punishment at Secondary Level. The population was all the students of 10th class which made a population of 30200 students in Tehsils of District Malakand of KPK. Sixteen secondary schools and twenty-six students from each school were taken as a sample by using a simple random method. The research instrument DASS 42 about corporal punishment used four options, i.e.at home, at school, both at home and school and neither at home nor at school. The questionnaire was administered to 416 students and 400 were received. The findings of the study were that a significant association of corporal punishment with psychological trauma i.e. depression, anxiety and stress was found. The students were corporally punished both at homes and schools had moderate or severe level of stress, anxiety and depression..

Keywords: Students’ Corporal Punishment; Psychological Trauma; Depression; Anxiety and Stress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).14

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