Exploring The Trauma: Depression, Childhood Emotional Neglect and Aggression Among Young Adults

Abstract

Depression is a serious medical illness that interrupts one’s emotions, way of thinking and behaving to a significant level. There are numerous factors responsible for the experience of depression in a person. Previous literature is evident that childhood emotional neglect and aggression plays a major role in developing depression among the individuals. The present research has studied the relationship of depression with emotional neglect and aggression. For this purpose, the data of 100 young adults was collected from different colleges of Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. Standardised questionnaires have been used. For the analysis, Correlation and multiple regression were calculated with the help of SPSS-20. The results show that there is a significant correlation between depression and emotional neglect. Significant association between depression and aggression was also found. Further, when taken as a set, emotional neglect, aggression and gender accounts for 26% of unique variance in predicting depression. When taken individually, emotional neglect, aggression and gender again shown as predicting a unique variance for depression among young adults.