Role of Personal Factors and Resilience in Attitude towards Reporting Child Sexual Abuse among Teachers

Abstract

The present research is aimed to investigate the effect of resilience on attitude towards reporting child sexual abuse among teachers. Sample of 262 teachers induding male (n= 97) and female (n=165) was selected. The age of the participant ranges between 21 to 66 years (M = 35.73; SD = 9.99). Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale was used to measured resilience (CD-RISC; Connor & Davidson, 2003) and Teachers Reporting Attitude Scale towards Child Sexual Abuse (TRAS-CSA; Walsh et aI., 2010) was used to measured teachers reporting attitude child sexual abuse. Results indicated that Correlation analysis shows that resilience is positively related with reporting attitude towards child sexual abuse. Linear regression analysis shows that resilience positively predicts attitude towards reporting child sexual abuse. Results of moderation analysis shows that education moderate the relationship between resilience and attitude towards reporting child sexual abuse i.e. when the years of education is high, it increases resilience among teachers which in tum effect their attitude towards reporting child sexual abuse. Furthennore, Married teachers and teachers who are older in age show more resilience and perceived to have more negative attitude towards repOliing, while male teachers show less resilience perceive more positive attitude towards reporting. In the end implications of the study along with limitations and suggestions for future empirical endeavors have been discussed.