Depression, Aggression And Childhood Sexual Abuse Of Female University Students In Tibet

This research utilized the random sampling and stratified samplingmethod, three universities were investigated in Tibet.480participantswere female university students contains freshman，sophomore，juniorand senior, they were17to26years old. It was designed to ascertain thesituation of aggression, depression and Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA),then explore the factors and consequences among female universitystudents in Tibet by a self-designed questionnaire, CSA questionnaire(designed by Chen Jingqi), Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Buss&Perry Aggression Questionnaire Revised Edition. According to theseresearches, the result showed:(1) A total number of480female university students were surveyedin Tibet,107students reported had experienced at least one times onekind of sexual abuse before16years old, the incidence was22.3%(107/480). Among these female university students (107people),5sdudents (4.7%) experienced sexual abuse for first time less than6yearsold,13students (12.1%) experienced sexual abuse between6to12yearsold,89students (83.2%) experienced sexual abuse between12to16years old. Comparing the occurrence time of CSA,40students (37.4%)experienced sexual abuse at night; comparing the occurrence place ofCSA,41students (38.3%) experienced sexual abuse in public places. Themain abusers were males and young people; among abusers,34(31.8%)people were strangers, while34people (31.8%) were countrymen.(2) There were49.6%students had no depression,40.2%studentshad mild depression;9.6%students had moderate depression;0.6%students had severe depression of the total number. It showed that morethan half female university students had more or less depressive symptoms in Tibet.Tibetan nationality female university students weremore serious than the Han nationality female university students onsomatic symptoms, psychomotor disturbance, mental disorder anddepression；children without siblings had more mental and affectivesymptoms than children with siblings；students whose parents divorced orat least one of them was dead were more serious than the students whoseparents were alive on mental and affective symptoms, somatic symptoms,mental disorder and depression.The students who had religion had moreSomatic symptoms, psychomotor disturbance, mental disorder anddepression than the students who had no religion. Medical students hadmore psychomotor disturbance than science students.(3) Children without siblings had more physical aggression, verbalaggression, anger than children with siblings, they had more aggressivebehavior; liberal arts and science students were more prone to verbalaggression than medical students; students who came from city andcounty were more prone to physical attack than rural or pastoral students;students who came from city had more verbal aggression and anger thanrural or pastoral students. Comparing father’s occupation, students whosefather were civil servants had more physical attack than students whosefather were peasants or herdsmen; students whose father were civilservants had more verbal attack than students whose father were peasantsor herdsmen.(4) The correlation analysis found that: CSA could cause depression.Students who were of physical sexual abuse group had more physicalaggression, self attack than students who were of non sexual abuse groupor non physical sexual abuse group. In addition, regression analysisshowed that depression could cause aggression.