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Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2007 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 14 | Page No.: 1930-1935
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2007.1930.1935
Comparing Demographic Characteristics of Male Victims of Domestic Violence
Said Pournaghash-Tehrani and Zahra Feizabadi

Abstract: The present study investigated the demographic characteristics of male victims of domestic violence. These demographic characteristics were menxs age, level of education and level of income. To do this, an author-made questionnaire regarding victimization of domestic violence, both, physical and psychological, was administered to 120 randomly chosen men, referred to family courts by their councilors to seek divorce because of experiencing domestic violence. The results showed that age had significant effect on physical violence; specifically, hitting and psychological violence; specifically, denying choices and cessation of intermarital intercourse. Also, the level of education had significant effect on the physical (e.g., throwing objects) and psychological (e.g., Cessation of marital intercourse and denying choices). Finally, present results indicated that the level of income, by itself, did not have any effects on experiencing any types of violence by men but its effect was visible and significant in the presence of the other two factors, the age and the level of education. The results in the present study are, in fact, only of their kinds in that the characteristics of abused men by their wives are assessed in male victims of domestic violence and can contribute to further understanding of the types of men susceptible to victimization by their wives. Furthermore, it should be pointed out that other demographic variables such as the number of children, the type of housing (ownership of the house or renting) and so on, were also determined in this study, but given their lack of any significant effects on the occurrence of violence of any kind against men, were not mentioned in the study.

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Said Pournaghash-Tehrani and Zahra Feizabadi, 2007. Comparing Demographic Characteristics of Male Victims of Domestic Violence. Journal of Applied Sciences, 7: 1930-1935.

Keywords: Male victims, domestic violence, demographic variables and characteristics

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