In China, a team of scientists from Beijing Sports University studied the connection between parents’ indifference to their children and the development of qualities such as guilt, lack of compassion and deep emotions in young people. To work published In the scientific journal Scientific Reports.
Experts have found that people who were abused in childhood may develop an insecure attachment style. It is characterized by a feeling of worthlessness of love, as well as difficulties in establishing trusting, intimate relationships.
Researchers recruited 429 adolescent male inmates, ages 14 to 18, from two prison facilities in China.
Participants completed four surveys: the Brief Childhood Trauma Form to measure childhood maltreatment, the Parent and Peer Attachment Questionnaire to measure attachment to mother and father, the Wong and Lowe Emotional Intelligence Scale to measure emotional intelligence, and finally the Non-Emotional Traits Questionnaire.
Surveys found that parental love and emotional intelligence played a significant role in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and callous-unemotional personality traits, affecting approximately 39% of the relationships studied.
Research has confirmed that unemotional personality traits resulting from childhood abuse make adolescents more likely to commit violent crimes.
Psychologists before I learnedRumoring children are more likely to suffer from depression in adulthood.