Citation

Keyvanara M. Afinidad Barcelona 2014; 80(568): 342-348.

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(Copyright © 2014, Instituto Químico de Sarriá. Asociación de Químicos del Instituto Químico de Sarriá)

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Abstract

Violence against women is, despite increasing developments of the 21st century, still one of the most important violations of human rights, and one of the most essential problems of millions of women, who are harassed because of their gender. This research aims to study the spread of spousal abuse and affecting factors in the city of Isfahan in 2011. This study is based on cross-sectional descriptive analytical design. The statistical population includes all women referred to the medical health centers of the city of Isfahan in 2011. A self-administered questionnaire was prepared by the researchers based on the valid domestic or foreign sources, and assimilated based on social and cultural conditions of Iranian society. In conclusion, the obtained data were analyzed using SPSS software at the significance level less than 0.05. According to the results of this research, the most common violence against women of the target group is affective misbehavior (206 women = 52.82%). Moreover, 47.69% (186 women), 35.38 % (138 women) and 24.87% (97 women) were misbehaved by verbal, financial, and physical violent acts respectively. The results of chi-squared test show that housewives are more exposed to affective, verbal, financial, and physical violent acts. Moreover, the results indicate that violence against women differs depending on education, and there is a significant difference in terms of the relation between education and violence. Moreover, there is a relation between residence and violence. The results also show that the wives of unemployed men are more subject to violence (p= 0.031). Moreover, the average score of verbal, affective, and physical violent acts are related to age, age of husband, and period of marital life. The most important factor of misbehavior are the tiredness and impatience of their husbands (37.38%), nit-picking of their husbands (30.14 %), mistrust of their husbands (16.54%), the interference of relatives and friends (9.9%), and the act of repartee of the wives (6.04%). According to the results of this research, spousal abuse is of high rate and affective violence is the most common type. It seems that trainings of life skills in schools, medical and health centers, and media as well as focusing on the role of consulting centers and spread of consulting culture among couples as the main solution of reducing spousal abuse.

Language: en