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. 1986 Jan;56(1):142-146.
doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1986.tb01551.x.

Similarities in behavioral and social maladjustment among child victims and witnesses to family violence

Peter Jaffe  1 , David Wolfe  2 , Susan Wilson  2 , Lydia Zak  2
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Similarities in behavioral and social maladjustment among child victims and witnesses to family violence

Peter Jaffe et al. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1986 Jan.

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.

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