Document Type : Research Article
Author
Faculty member of the Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
10.22055/psy.1997.16390
Abstract
This article reports a research on the relationship between some demographic factors and man’s violence against his wife. In this respect, some hypotheses were tested about the relationship between different demographic factors (age, education, income, occupation, number of children, the length of marriage and the satisfaction from marriage), and man’s violence (psychological, physical, severe and total) against his wife. 153 women from different parts of Ahvaz were selected randomly and The Woman Abuse Scale and a researcher-made questionnaire were used for collecting data. The results indicate that among different variables under study, satisfaction from marriage had the lowest risk of wife abuse. Education of both men and their wives had negative correlations with total violence, but only men’s education was negatively correlated with psychological violence. The men and their wives’ education were negatively correlated with physical violence, but the length of marriage and the number of children related positively to wife abuse. The multiple regression analyses showed that satisfaction from marriage is the best predictor of all types of wife abuse. Also the results indicate that satisfaction from marriage, education of men and the length of marriage are good predictors of physical abuse.
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