This final study examined how observational learning thought a domestically abusive childhood may result in psychological aggression towards close friends during adulthood.
The experiment aimed to examine the similarities and differences between being exposed to violence as a infant and a young adult’s connection in psychological violence towards peers. This was achieved by surveying 1881 participants in 2002 relating to inter parental violence they may have been witness to, and again interviewed in 2005 relating to aggression they have experienced personally.
It was hypothesised that although conditioned by different social conditions/contexts, childhood exposure to violence in one’s family in developing countries such as the Phillipines
The experiment aimed to examine the similarities and differences between being exposed to violence as a infant and a young adult’s connection in psychological violence towards peers. This was achieved by surveying 1881 participants in 2002 relating to inter parental violence they may have been witness to, and again interviewed in 2005 relating to aggression they have experienced personally.
It was hypothesised that although conditioned by different social conditions/contexts, childhood exposure to violence in one’s family in developing countries such as the Phillipines