Abstract
Domestic abuse is a kind of violence common in South Africa which for most part focuses on women. Children and adolescents who witnessthese abuses are hardly the focus of domestic abuse research. Hence the need to understand the relationship between gender, exposure to domesticviolence and identity development of adolescents. Based on a cross-sectional design, a questionnaire with three sections A, B and C was used to collect data from 109 randomly selected adolescent young men and girls from the University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), Limpopo Province in South Africa. Age of participants ranged from 15-20 years with a mean age of 18.7 years (SD = .946). The child exposure to domestic violence scale (CEDV) was used to dichotomize exposed and non exposedgroups while gender was defined as male/female. Two hypotheses were stated within a 2-way factorial ANOVA. Results showed a significantmain effect for group exposure, (F (1,109) =9.395, P
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