Citation

Haj-Yahia MM. Violence Against Women 2013; 19(3): 376-399.

Affiliation

1Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801213486328

PMID

23676449

Abstract

The article presents results from a larger survey, which examined the attitudes and perceptions of Palestinian physicians (N = 396) toward wife abuse. The instrument was a self-administered questionnaire, with open-ended questions in which participants expressed their definitions of wife abuse, their perceptions of the causes of wife abuse, and their perceptions of appropriate interventions with wife abuse. The relevance of the sociocultural contexts of Palestinian society in particular and Arab societies in general to the participants' responses is highlighted in the article. The limitations of the study as well as implications for theory development, future research, and professional training are discussed.

Language: en