Emotional child abuse, self esteem and depression among adolescents in Wakiso District

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