The Hidden Scars and Self Efficacy among School Going Adolescents

Abstract

Studies proved that emotional violence have long lasting and devastating effect on the physical, social, psychological, cognitive and emotional development. Though the visible signs of emotional abuse is difficult to detect, the hidden scars of this type of abuse manifest in numerous crisis. There is a greater probability that emotional violence gets interfere with the positive states of mind like self efficacy, having confidence to take on and put in the necessary effort to succeed at challenging tasks. The study is conducted among 180 higher secondary school students through successive levels of Multistage sampling. Descriptive research design is adopted, where in quantitative measures were used with an effort to provide description on the phenomenon and the variables considered in the research. Child Emotional Abuse increases stress reactivity and decreases levels of self-esteem and self–efficacy (Yates 2007).The research also affirms negative significant relationship between academic, social and emotional self efficacy and emotional violence. Strengthening or enhancing self efficacy among adolescents through appropriate intervention may help the effected to act as an antidote to the traumatic situation rather debilitating the threats.