Wives’ backgrounds, perception towards family values and physical aggression

The focus of this paper is on the relationship between backgrounds, perceptions towards family values and physical aggression among Iranian wives. The paper is based on a study carried out among 337 wives who suffered physical aggression. Physical aggression was measured using Straus Questionnaire...

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Main Authors: Edalati, Ali, Redzuan, Ma’rof, Mansor, Mariani, Abu Talib, Mansor
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Language:English
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Published: EuroJournals Publishing 2009
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Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17649/1/Wives.pdf
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author Edalati, Ali
Redzuan, Ma’rof
Mansor, Mariani
Abu Talib, Mansor
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description The focus of this paper is on the relationship between backgrounds, perceptions towards family values and physical aggression among Iranian wives. The paper is based on a study carried out among 337 wives who suffered physical aggression. Physical aggression was measured using Straus Questionnaire of Conflict Tactic Scale (CTS). There was a significant relationship between duration of marriage, women age, and number of children with family values. There was no relationship between family income and women education with family values. An Independent Sample t-test was utilized to investigate the differences across the two means of groups. As the result, a significant difference was found between women employment and family values where t = 4.48, p ≤.01. An Independent Sample t-test was utilized in order to test the means of the two performances. It was found that there is no significant difference between husband employment and family values. There was no significant difference between the experiences of violence before marriage in terms of the perception towards family values. There was also no significant relationship between family values and female physical aggression.
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spelling upm.eprints-176492015-09-14T07:39:18Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17649/ Wives’ backgrounds, perception towards family values and physical aggression Edalati, Ali Redzuan, Ma’rof Mansor, Mariani Abu Talib, Mansor The focus of this paper is on the relationship between backgrounds, perceptions towards family values and physical aggression among Iranian wives. The paper is based on a study carried out among 337 wives who suffered physical aggression. Physical aggression was measured using Straus Questionnaire of Conflict Tactic Scale (CTS). There was a significant relationship between duration of marriage, women age, and number of children with family values. There was no relationship between family income and women education with family values. An Independent Sample t-test was utilized to investigate the differences across the two means of groups. As the result, a significant difference was found between women employment and family values where t = 4.48, p ≤.01. An Independent Sample t-test was utilized in order to test the means of the two performances. It was found that there is no significant difference between husband employment and family values. There was no significant difference between the experiences of violence before marriage in terms of the perception towards family values. There was also no significant relationship between family values and female physical aggression. EuroJournals Publishing 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17649/1/Wives.pdf Edalati, Ali and Redzuan, Ma’rof and Mansor, Mariani and Abu Talib, Mansor (2009) Wives’ backgrounds, perception towards family values and physical aggression. European Journal of Scientific Research, 38 (1). pp. 72-80. ISSN 1450-216X Family violence - Iran Aggressiveness Women - Violence against English
spellingShingle Family violence - Iran
Aggressiveness
Women - Violence against
Edalati, Ali
Redzuan, Ma’rof
Mansor, Mariani
Abu Talib, Mansor
Wives’ backgrounds, perception towards family values and physical aggression
title Wives’ backgrounds, perception towards family values and physical aggression
title_full Wives’ backgrounds, perception towards family values and physical aggression
title_fullStr Wives’ backgrounds, perception towards family values and physical aggression
title_full_unstemmed Wives’ backgrounds, perception towards family values and physical aggression
title_short Wives’ backgrounds, perception towards family values and physical aggression
title_sort wives backgrounds perception towards family values and physical aggression
topic Family violence - Iran
Aggressiveness
Women - Violence against
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