University of Colorado Denver, Denver, USA.
Violence Against Women. 2013 Nov;19(11):1312-30. doi: 10.1177/1077801213514487. Epub 2013 Dec 5.
Woman abuse varies across intimate relationship categories (e.g., marriage, divorce, separation). However, it is unclear whether relationship status variations in violence against women differ across urban, suburban, and rural areas. We test the hypothesis that rural females, regardless of their intimate partner relationship status, are at higher risk of intimate violence than their urban and suburban counterparts. Results indicate that marital status is an important aspect of the relationship between intimate victimization and geographic area and that rural divorced and separated females are victimized at rates exceeding their urban counterparts.
女性虐待在亲密关系类别中存在差异（例如，婚姻、离婚、分居）。然而，目前尚不清楚针对女性的暴力行为在城市、郊区和农村地区是否因关系状况的不同而有所差异。我们验证了这样一个假设，即无论其亲密伴侣关系状况如何，农村女性遭受亲密暴力的风险都高于城市和郊区女性。结果表明，婚姻状况是亲密关系中受虐与地理位置之间的一个重要方面，农村离婚和分居的女性受害率超过了城市女性。
