Exploring the relationship between exposure to interparental violence and child physical abuse in childhood and the impacts on mental health problems in later young adulthood among South Korean college students

Abstract

Family violence including interparental violence and child maltreatment is a pervasive social problem that affects all societies worldwide, and its detrimental impacts on people’s mental health are well documented. However, studies on family violence in South Korea are still limited. By utilizing an exploratory retrospective research design, this study explored the extent of childhood experience of family violence and the long-term impacts on mental health outcomes. A total of 90 college students in South Korea participated, and findings reveal that more than half of the participants were exposed to family violence as children, resulting in harmful long-term impacts on their mental health in young adulthood.

Exploring Family Multi-type Maltreatment, Social Support, and Externalizing and Internalizing Problems Among Asian and Asian American College Students

“…However, dual harm and any single type of maltreatment had no differences in internalizing problems. This result was similar to Han et al's (2016) outcomes, which found that South Korean college students who were exposed to a single form of violence showed equally high levels of internalizing problems as those exposed to dual harm.…”

“…In Taiwan, those experiencing multi-type family maltreatment demonstrated more internalizing and externalizing problems than those experiencing only one type of maltreatment (Shen, 2009). However, among South Korean young adults, exposure to a single type of maltreatment resulted in equally high levels of internalizing and externalizing problems as those who experienced dual family harm (Han, Choi, & Jung 2016).…”

“…Lee and Hadeed (2009) demonstrated that in South Korean immigrant communities, positive support from families, relatives, and friends was more likely to reduce life stress, distress symptoms, and spousal violence. Han et al (2016) found that, for South Korean college students who experienced family violence, social support from parents, close friends, teachers, and classmates reduced internalizing mental health outcomes, helping -them rebuild their sense of self‖ (p. 831). However, they did not find the effect of social support on externalizing behavior.…”

Patterns of exposure to adverse childhood experiences and their associations with mental health: a survey of 1346 university students in East Asia

“…Although ample evidence supports the enduring relationships between different forms of childhood adversities with negative mental health outcomes in East Asia [12,37,38], a significant gap remains in understanding how different ACE patterns may associate with different mental health risk profiles in this cultural group. Addressing this knowledge gap would have significant implications for the design and implementation of targeted and culturally appropriate prevention and intervention programs.…”

Exploring relationship among child maltreatment experience in childhood and behavior problems as young adults: Role of social support among college students in Hong Kong

“…Even though this scale has not been used with college students in Hong Kong, the original ABCL scale has been widely used in cross-cultural studies (Chan et al, 2003). Also, a study with college students in South Korea that used the exact same 28 items showed a very good reliability (α = .89) (Han et al, 2015). The scale in this study also shows a very good reliability (α = .89).…”