The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among adolescence´s perceptive experience about parental marital violence, codependence and social support. The sample consisted of 713 students from high school in Taipei. Data obtained in this study were analyzed by t-test, simultaneous regression analysis and one-way analysis of variance. The primary findings were as follows:
1. There were several significant differences in adolescence´s perception of parental marital violence among parental marital status, including father´s physical violence, father´s psychological battering, mother´s verbal aggression and whole perception of parental marital violence.
2. No sex difference was shown for the whole perception of parental marital violent experience. However, it´s significant in mother verbal aggression. Girls percepted more mother´s verbal aggression than boys did.
3. From the results of simultaneous regression analysis, adolescence´s perception of parental marital violence that could predict codependence. Father´s verbal aggression and mother´s verbal aggression were more powerful in predicting.
4. From the results of simultaneous regression analysis, adolescence´s perception of parental marital violence and social support could predict codependence. Moreover, it´s more predicted emotional support, father´s verbal aggression, and mother´s verbal aggression.
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