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Intimate Partner Violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Prevalence and Risk Factors.
- Source :
- Journal of Family Violence; Nov2013, Vol. 28 Issue 8, p797-809, 13p, 5 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This paper presents results from a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of married women ( N = 3,500) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Interviews assessed the 12-month prevalence of participants' exposure to psychological, physical, and sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) and risk factors including: demographic characteristics, several factors of marital relations, stressful life events, political violence, status inconsistency, family size, locality, region, help resources in the community, and locality-level acceptance of wife abuse. The prevalence estimates of IPV were: psychological aggression, 50 % minor and 12 % severe; physical assault, 17 % minor and 6 % severe; and sexual coercion, 4 % minor and 6 % severe. Results revealed that stressful life events, husbands' controlling behavior, and marital conflicts were related to all forms of IPV (all p-values < 0.05). Greater locality-level acceptance of wife abuse was statistically associated with greater odds of each type of violence except sexual violence. The limitations and implications of the study for future research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ABUSED women
CONTROL (Psychology)
STATISTICAL correlation
DECISION making
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research
MARITAL status
MARRIAGE
MARRIED women
METROPOLITAN areas
POWER (Social sciences)
PROBABILITY theory
DYSFUNCTIONAL families
RESEARCH evaluation
RESEARCH funding
RURAL conditions
STATISTICAL sampling
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
GENDER role
SPOUSES
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
SURVEYS
CULTURAL values
MULTIPLE regression analysis
SOCIAL attitudes
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
SOCIAL context
CROSS-sectional method
INTIMATE partner violence
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08857482
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Family Violence
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 91257838
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-013-9549-2