Childhood Emotional Abuse and its Impact on Adults: An Understanding Using LVA and BEOS

Childhood trauma is a known risk factor for multitude of mental disorders and psychosocial problems. This study aims to identify the lingering effects of childhood emotional abuse (CEA), and how deeply it impacts individuals during adulthood. This study was conducted using two forensic psychology instruments namely layered voice analysis (LVA), and brain electrical oscillation signature profiling (BEOS). LVA is a tool that detects stress level, cognitive thinking, etc. and analyses microvariations in the voice to detect emotional states. BEOS uses neural activity patterns to identify memories and knowledge where remembrance is triggered. In this study, 30 participants (11 men, 19 women) were taken ranging between 18 and 28 years. LVA was administered on all the participants as a screening tool, to identify experiences of emotional violence, followed by BEOS. Two groups were formulated out of which, one group consisted of participants who have experienced abuse in their childhood, and the other, who claimed to not have experienced any such abuse. The results established that most of the participants from both the groups have memory of being emotionally abused as a child and hence, showed Experiential Knowledge (EK) during the BEOS test. To conclude, most participants have experienced some kind of psychological violence which affects them in their daily life, to date.