Maltrato Físico Infantil y Apoyo Social: Un Estudio Descriptivo - Comparativo Entre Maltratadores Físicos y No Maltratadores de la Ciudad de Temuco

To carry out preventive and therapeutic interventions in abusive families, itis very important to consider the huge deficit of social support for these families.For this reason, the outcome of this research is the description and comparison ofstructural and functional aspects of abusive and non-abusive parent’s social support. This investigation is a secondary analysis carried out with data taken from the FONDECYT 1960795, “Building upan instrumentto detect potencial physical abuse”.For the research a cases-control design is used including 325 subjects, 112 physical abusers and 213non-physical abusers. The data analysis included a univariate analysis of variance and analysis of factorial variance. The functional aspects of the social support turn outto be more significant when comparing physical abusive parents and non-physical abusive parents.Main discoveries, implications, and limitations are discussed.