title: Similarities in behavioral and social maladjustment among child victims and witnesses to family violence.
abstract: This study examines the impact of exposure to family violence on school-aged boys. Boys who had witnessed violence between their parents were compared to boys who had been abused by their parents. The findings indicate that boys exposed to violence had a pattern of adjustment problems similar to those of abused boys and significantly different in severity and type from those of a community comparison group.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002667:Child Reactive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013179:Spouse Abuse; D014754:Violence