| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between emotional child abuse,
self esteem and depression among adolescents in secondary schools. A correlational study design
using quantitative design was used to examine the relationship between the variables. The study
considered 150 randomly selected respondents, which included both males and females. The data
collected was analyzed using SPSS version 20 in which Pearson’s correlation co-efficiency (r) was
used to test the significance of the hypotheses. The results indicated that, there was no significant
relationship between emotional child abuse and depression; there was no significant relationship
between emotional child abuse and self-esteem there was a significant positive relationship
between self esteem and depression among secondary school adolescents. And therefore, it was
concluded that, no significant relationships exist between the variables in this particular study
except self esteem and depression which showed a significant positive relationship | en_US |
