Family violence, parent - child relationship and alcohol abuse among adolescents.

Abstract

The study was carried out to investigate the relationship family violence, child-parent relationship and alcohol abuse among adolescents. The specific objective of the study was to to examine the relationship between family violence, child-parent relationship and alcohol abuse of adolescents in Kawempe Division. The study had 150 respondents who were randomly selected from different villages in Kawempe Division. Self-administered questionnaires were used in data collection process the data was analyzed using the statistical software package for social sciences (SPSS). Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient was used determine the significance of the relationships among variables.