Background: Verbal abuse has negative effects that will ultimately affect child development. Verbal abuse committed by parents may potentially leave a trauma in children’s lives and affect their growth and development. Children’s social environment where they carry out interactions may be the factor of verbal abuse of children. Methods: The design of this study is cross-sectional, with total population of 328 children of school age. 259 children were selected with proportional random sampling technique. The independent variables were
parental verbal abuse and psychosocial factors, while the dependent variable was children verbal aggressive
behaviors. The instrument used was questionnaire sheets. The analysis performed was Logistic Regression
Analysis. Results: Verbal abuse behaviors were influenced by parental verbal abuse factor (p=0.003) and psychosocial factor (p=0.03). Conclusions: Parenting style and children’s social environment contribute to the probability of children verbal abuse. Family intervention is highly expected to prevent aggressive child behavior.
Keywords: Verbal abuse, Verbal aggressive, School-age children