Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Department of social sciences in Yasouj university

Abstract

Spouse abuse is one of the social damages in the today world. In the present study, with the aim of reviewing all the files of the first six months of 1399, women who were abused by their husbands, referring to the social emergency department of the Welfare Department of Najafabad city were selected for the study. In this study, using cross-sectional, descriptive, analytical and based on the delivery of second data, the information of which has been collected in the past.
, the questionnaire included in the files regarding the type of violence and the cause of violence by the spouse was quantitatively studied. The validity of this research was content validity and audit method was used to calculate the reliability. Data of this study was collected using a reverse questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS statistical software. Findings show that most violence against women is verbal and physical violence, respectively. There was also a significant relationship between the existence of patriarchal culture, male gender socialization in childhood, poor family economic conditions, poor family social conditions, psychological status and sexual issues in the family with spousal abuse. On the other hand, no relationship was reported between the underlying characteristics and spousal abuse. Finally, among the research variables, poor economic conditions of the family with 64% and poor social conditions with 19% had the largest share in explaining the rate of spousal abuse, respectively.

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