الملخص الإنجليزي
The study aims to identify the relationship between the academic attainment of 12th grade school students in Muscat governorate and their childhoods experience of parental psychological abuse. It also aims to study whether this abuse differs in accordance with the student's gender, level of parents education, size of the family, students order in the family and the perpetrator of the psychological abuse.
The study sample consisted of (401) boys and girls from the schools of the wilayat of Muscat Governorate, namely (Muscat, Mutirah, Seeb, Bausher, Aamrat and Quriyat). The researcher employed an instrument of her own design, making use of the literature review of the subject. This measurement consisted of two reflections; the first is the father and the second, the mother. Each reflection contained (33) items distributed among five dimensions of the parental psychological abuse (Rejection, Verbal abuse, Social isolation, Intimidation and emotional negligence). These measurements proved to enjoy a considerable degree of validity and reliability through the extraction of its apparent validity and reliability by using (Cronbach's Alpha). The findings were analyzed using the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) using Means Average, Standard deviations, person's correlation co-efficiencies, T-test and ANOVA.
One of the most significant findings that this study reached is that the 12th grade student had seldom experienced parental psychological abuse during their childhoods. The findings of the study also demonstrated the existence of a statically significant negative correlation relationship between the students' academic attainment and the parental psychological abuse in it's five dimensions. However the dimension intimidation had the weakest negative correlation with academic attainment. The findings also indicated the existence of statistically significant differences between boys and girls in parental psychological abuse except the dimension of cinotional negligence where the findings of the study did not reveal any statistically significant differences.
The findings also revealed the existence of statistically significant differences between the father's educational level in favour of fathers who do not master reading and writing. On the other hand, the findings revealed that there are no statistically significant differences between the educational level of the mother. The study also indicated that the middle son is the one who is mostly exposed to parental psychological abuse. It also showed that the more the number of the family members, the more likely its children are exposed to parental psychological abuse. Lastly, the study revealed the existence of statistically significant differences between the perpetrators of the abuse in favour of the father. These differences were interpreted in the light of previous research and literature.
