The family violence and its relationship with ego strength among children

الملخص EN

The aims : -The extent of prevalence of family violence on children.

-Relation between family violence and ego strength on children.

-Differences in practicing family violence according to gender.

-Differences in ego strength between males and females.

-Differences in practicing family violence according to parents’ educational level.

The sample of the stnclyis composed of 444 children of 7th grade (age 13 years old) in the basic education stage in the state schools of Damascus governorate (Jaramana, Harasta, Arbeen) who have suffered violence, 228 of which are males and 216 are females.

The researcher has used family violence scale prepared by Yamen Mostafa (2010), and Baron ego strength scale translated into Arabic and codified by Kafafi(1982).Statistical program (SPSS) for processing data and extracting results has been used.

The results of the study are : -Males are more subject to violence than females.

-There is a relation between the appearance of family violence and ego strength for children of the study sample members.

-There are statistical significant differences between the mean of family violence degrees according to the gender variable for the study sample members in favor of males.