Emerging adult college students' descriptions of exposure to childhood emotional abuse and associated factors: A qualitative exploration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Growing evidence on the long-term deleterious impacts of emotional abuse highlights the need to further understand childhood emotional abuse and its context to strengthen prevention efforts.

Objective

To describe emerging adults' experiences of emotional abuse in their childhoods and the household context surrounding that abuse.

Participants and setting

Fifty-eight interviews were conducted with emerging adults, ages 18-25, recruited from four 2- and 4-year institutions of higher education.

Methods

Thematic analysis was conducted to identify and describe patterns in the data. A cyclical approach to codebook development and data analysis was followed by a team of four coders.

Results

Themes related to participants' experiences of emotional abus

SUBMITTER: Dadi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10842179 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature