Citation

Carmona-Torres JM, Rodríguez-Borrego MA, Rodríguez-Muñoz PM, Cobo-Cuenca AI, Laredo-Aguilera JA, López-Soto PJ. Violence Vict. 2023; 38(3): 358-374.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Springer Publishing)

DOI

10.1891/VV-2022-0026

PMID

37348958

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important public health problem. Female victims of IPV do not always use the institutional resources available to them. We conducted a cross-sectional study using data from the Spanish 2014 Macro-Survey on Violence Against Women. The findings show that 15% of the survey participants suffered from IPV in the last year. The factors associated with a higher probability of suffering IPV are being of non-Spanish nationality, being a student, having a low-educational level, having no income, being the household head, and not having a current partner. Regarding the resources used by women subjected to IPV, almost half resorted to informal sources, such as female friends and/or their own mothers. The use of formal resources was low. Therefore, IPV continues to be a problem in Spain that seems to remain in the private domain. Consequently, it is necessary to increase the availability of and access to legal resources.

Language: en

Keywords

Spain; public health; sexual violence; prevalence; physical violence; psychological violence