NCJ Number
221132
Journal
Violence and Victims Volume: 22 Issue: 5 Dated: 2007 Pages: 632-647
Date Published
2007
Length
16 pages
Annotation
The purpose of this descriptive study is to begin exploring the prevalence and characteristics of witnessed parental violence and relationship violence among educated, higher socioeconomic status Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latina women residing in the United States.
Abstract
The results document that Latina, East Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern educated women from a higher socioeconomic status (SES) are vulnerable to multiple forms of family violence in childhood and in adulthood, as victims and as perpetrators. More than 50 percent of each ethnic group witnessed parental and adult relationship violence. For all three groups, adult psychological violence was more prevalent than physical violence. Rapid immigration and the changing demographics present a considerable challenge for clinicians and researchers. It is necessary to examine the prevalence, characteristics, and perpetrators of family violence in populations with different cultural values than those represented in the literature. This study’s purpose was to describe the rates and characteristics of family violence for educated and higher SES East Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latina women. Specifically, the desire was to document the prevalence of psychological, physical, and injury parental and partner violence and assess the primary perpetrators and victims of parental and partner violence for women of these ethnic groups. The study sample consisted of 251 college-educated South Asian/Middle Eastern, East Asian and Latina women residing in the United States. Tables, references