The Nature and Effect of Emotional Violence/Abuse against Grade 11th Female Students of Addis Ketema Preparatory School, Addis Ababa
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2010-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This study assessed the nature and effect of emotional violence against grade 11thof
female Students of Addis Ketema Preparatory School. In order to meet this objective, the
researcher employed mixed approach methods- quantitative and qualitative methods. To
select the sample researcher used probability and non probability sampling techniques.
For the survey, six sections out of seventeen were selected through simple random
sampling technique; and the researcher include all of 176 female students as sample but
the students who returned answered paper was 140. Furthermore, purposive sampling
was used to select key informants of administrative workers; besides convenience
sampling technique was used for selection of the interviewees: 15 female students and
two teachers (one male and one female). The finding indicate that most of the female
students experience emotional violence in the classroom and in the school compound by
male class mate, male teachers, female students, female teachers and administrative
workers. And the type of emotional violence perpetrated in the class room and school
compound can be categorized as verbal attack, humiliation, name calling and
threatening. This emotional violence have a negative effect on the education of female
students through decreasing their class participation, discouraging to engage in different
learning activities etc. In addition, emotional violence has negative impact on the
personality of female students through making them feel inferior, under estimate
themselves etc. However, to avoid these problems, these students didn’t take any strong
measure like reporting to school administration since the school does not have reporting
mechanism and a trend before. And finally, the researcher recommended the school
should provide the mechanisms that help the students report emotional violence which
takes place inside the class room and in the school compound; and the government has to work on emotional violence in different direction like legal aspects because unless
otherwise the source of emotional violence abolished and the perpetrator punished it is
difficult to avoid it
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Gender Studies