NCJ Number
240499
Date Published
July 2012
Length
11 pages
Annotation
This study examined the social and cultural etiology of violence against women in Jordan.
Abstract
This study aimed to describe the social and cultural etiology of violence against women in Jordan. A sample of houses was randomly selected from all 12 Governorates in Jordan, resulting in a final sample of 1,854 randomly selected women. ANOVA analysis showed significant differences in violence against women as a result of women's education, F=4.045, a=0.003, women who work, F=3.821, a=0.001, espouser to violence F=17.896, a=0.000, experiencing violence during childhood F=12.124, a=0.000, and wife's propensity to leave the marital relationship F=12.124, a=0.000. However, no differences were found in violence against women because of the husband's education, husband's work, or having friends who belief in physical punishment of kids. Findings showed women experienced 45 percent or witnessed 55 percent violence during their childhood. Almost all 98 percent of the sample was subjected to at least one type of violence. Twenty-eight percent of the sample believed a husband has the right to control a woman's behavior and 93 percent believed a wife is obliged to obey a husband. After each abusive incidence, women felt insecure, ashamed, frightened, captive and stigmatized. Abstract published by arrangement with Springer.