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The issue of incest has been extensively debated for a long time. However, the argument concerning father-daughter incest (FDI) began in 1980s. Many scholars disscuss the factors that contribute to incest as well as the consequences of the abuse. This paper applied a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to explore the issues and challenges faced by the survivors of father-daughter incest, comprising 12 social science articles across a 12-year period (2010 to July 2022)—the selection of papers was done based on a thorough processes through the Scopus database. Hence, findings revealed that FDI received huge attention from experts, specifically in terms of issues and challenges. This situation happens due to the increasing number of FDI incidence especially since the world has been infected by COVID-19 at the end of 2019. The majority of research applied a qualitative approach conducted in European and Asian country; yet, only one theory is embedded to address the issue. In relation to the issue and challenges of FDI, majority of papers concern taboos (8 articles), coping mechanisms (6 articles), and survival (11 articles). As a result, this study indicated that there are still under-researched pertaning to the issues and challenges associated to FDI, notably in terms of taboo, coping mechanisms, and survival.
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To Cite this Article: Azman, U. N. N., Ahmad, Y., Tahir, N. S., & Hamid, S. N. F. A. (2023). Challenges of Father-daughter Incest Survivors: Taboo, Coping and Survival. International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting Finance and Management Sciences, 13(2), 1002–1018.
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