The effects of childhood sexual abuse on children's psychology and employment

This paper presents the effects of childhood sexual abuse of children (male and female) on their lives. The effects of childhood sexual abuse are many; however, this paper particularly looks at the relationship between two effects e.g., psychological and work. The psychological effect is considered as an emotional problems e.g., depression, nightmares, suicidal attempts, fear of men and many more simultaneously the effects on work are inability to look for work, change of job and loss of employment. Moreover, the main objective is to explain the following psychological effects of childhood sexual abuse, which are more likely to impact on their lives comparing to the work (employment). Finally the comparison between level of psychological and employment effects has been tested by the chi-square and Cramer's V statistical tools. The result shows that there is a strong relationship between high level of psychological effects and employment effects (67%). This paper uses data which has been collected from the secondary sources.