키워드 네트워크를 통한 아동학대 국내 연구의 동향 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to visualize the paradigm and flow of child abuse studies in Korea, and to examine the concepts that were important. In this study, by examining trends in child abuse studies through keywords network analysis, the frequency trends and networks of keywords presented in previous studies were reviewed. Through this, I tried to provide implications for children's rights and comparison with other trend analysis researches. For this purpose, 5,813 keywords of 450 types from 1,203 research articles published from 2001 to 2022 were selected and analyzed using the UCINET6 program and the NetDraw program. As a result of the study, first, 'child', 'abuse', 'adolescent', 'parent', 'abuse experience', 'neglect', and 'depression' frequently appeared as the keywords in child abuse research. And, there was a slight difference in the frequency trend depending on the time period. Second, the entire network had a structure including 448 nodes, 7,588 links, and 2 components. Third, the keywords 'adolescence', 'parent', 'abuse experience', 'neglect', 'depression', 'emotional abuse', 'sexual abuse', and 'physical abuse' were keywords with high centrality. Fourth, the ego network of ‘adolescence’, ‘parent’, ‘abuse experience’, and ‘neglect’ had high connection strength between the four words, and was also strongly bound with ‘misconduct’, ‘depression’, and ‘school adjustment’. And the 'adolescence' ego network was connected to 'runaway', 'peer', 'suicidal ideation', 'suicide', and 'family', and the 'parent' ego network was connected to 'children', 'relationship', 'attachment', ' teacher', 'parenting attitude', and 'recognition' were connected. The 'abuse experience' ego network is connected to 'suicide', 'emotion', 'school violence', 'social support', and 'art therapy', and the 'neglect' ego network is linked to 'interpersonal relationships', 'teacher', ' post-traumatic stress' and 'ego-resilience' were strongly linked. Like previous studies, this study also found that the number of child abuse studies had increased since the middle of 2010, and there was a focus on exploring influencing variables. In addition to this, in this study, important keywords that penetrate the period were derived from child abuse studies, and a network of concepts connected to the keywords was identified. In addition, by discovering the focus of studies by period, it provided implications for future research and policy implementation on child abuse.