NCJ Number
245506
Journal
Journal of Family Violence Volume: 28 Issue: 8 Dated: November 2013 Pages: 797-809
Date Published
November 2013
Length
13 pages
Annotation
Interviews assessed the 12-month prevalence of participants' exposure to psychological, physical, and sexual intimate partner violence IPV and risk factors.
Abstract
This paper presents results from a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of married women N=3,500 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Interviews assessed the 12-month prevalence of participants' exposure to psychological, physical, and sexual intimate partner violence IPV and risk factors including: demographic characteristics, several factors of marital relations, stressful life events, political violence, status inconsistency, family size, locality, region, help resources in the community, and locality-level acceptance of wife abuse. The prevalence estimates of IPV were: psychological aggression, 50 percent minor and 12 percent severe; physical assault, 17 percent minor and 6 percent severe; and sexual coercion, 4 percent minor and 6 percent severe. Results revealed that stressful life events, husbands' controlling behavior, and marital conflicts were related to all forms of IPV all p-values<0.05. Greater locality-level acceptance of wife abuse was statistically associated with greater odds of each type of violence except sexual violence. The limitations and implications of the study for future research are discussed. Abstract published by arrangement with Springer.