Btoush Rula, Haj-Yahia Muhammad M
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2008 Nov;23(11):1531-54. doi: 10.1177/0886260508314313. Epub 2008 Mar 6.
The authors conducted an exploratory study among a convenience sample of 260 Jordanian men and women, using self-administered open and closed questions to examine the participants' approach toward wife abuse. In general, there was high awareness of wife abuse and the different types of abuse (mainly physical and psychological), a general tendency to oppose wife abuse, a tendency to blame the victim for abuse, and a lesser tendency to blame the abuse on the husband, marital problems, as well as familial and societal conditions. There was also a strong tendency to consider wife abuse a personal and familial issue rather than a social and legal problem. Therefore, the preferred method for coping with wife abuse and violence was the expectation that the abused wife should change her behavior and assume responsibility to change her husband followed by resorting to informal agents (family or community or religious figures). Less preferred coping methods included confronting the husband and expressing desire to break up or separate and resorting to formal agents (social welfare programs, counseling, legal system), as a last resort in cases of repeated abuse and severe physical violence. The implications of these findings for future research, interventions, and policy formulation are discussed.
作者在260名约旦男女的便利样本中进行了一项探索性研究，使用自行填写的开放式和封闭式问题来考察参与者对虐待妻子行为的态度。总体而言，对虐待妻子行为以及不同类型的虐待（主要是身体虐待和心理虐待）有较高的认知度，普遍倾向于反对虐待妻子行为，存在将虐待行为归咎于受害者的倾向，而将虐待行为归咎于丈夫、婚姻问题以及家庭和社会状况的倾向较小。也有一种强烈的倾向，即将虐待妻子行为视为个人和家庭问题而非社会和法律问题。因此，应对虐待妻子行为和暴力的首选方法是期望受虐妻子改变自己的行为并承担起改变丈夫的责任，其次是求助于非正式渠道（家庭、社区或宗教人士）。不太受欢迎的应对方法包括与丈夫对峙、表达分手或分居的意愿以及求助于正式渠道（社会福利项目、咨询、法律系统），这是在反复虐待和严重身体暴力情况下的最后手段。讨论了这些研究结果对未来研究、干预措施和政策制定的影响。
