MR.HAYASH TEENOTH
Humanities
Feburary 2022
Childhood is the most important phase of life that heavily impacts the evolution of the mind and the development of the brain. The main aim of this research was “to study the relationship between types of childhood trauma and depression among adults aged 20-50 years.” The research design was cross-sectional and the sampling was purposive. The tools used for assessment were The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) (Bernstein, Ahluvalia, Pogge and Hadelsman, 1997) and The Beck’s Depression Inventory (BDI) (Beck, et al., 1961). The pandemic and the superimposed restrictions on mankind have led to unravelling of new avenues and vistas of standardized research methods. One among them being online data collection. This research also followed a similar path. The questionnaires were converted into e- questions without losing the essence of the original one. Then it was circulated across various social media platforms as Google forms. Before the statistical dissection, the data was collated and then segregated into different categories. Mean, Standard Deviation (SD), Student’s T-test Two Tail, and Pearson product moment correlation was used. The statistical relationship between EA, PA, EN, PN and depression was skewed towards low correlations and lack of significance across the analyses. The t-scores for men and women are also below the critical values in the t-test hence indicating no significance and thus inferring that there is no significant relationship between men and women for types of abuse and depression. There were few patterns that was evident after the statistical examination i.e All analyses pointed towards a strong relationship between sexual abuse and clinicaly significant depression. It has to be noted that these indices should not be taken at face value as the others show low positive correlations and can also be a red flag showing the impact could be still brewing in the minds.
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