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Correlates of physical violence in marital relationships among first-generation Korean Americans
Abstract
English
Aims were to examine if a model exists explaining partner abuse from perceptual and demographic measures among 223 Korean immigrants. A model containing various perceptual and demographic measures was able to explain 58.6 percent of the variability. These models could be used to identify individuals at risk of becoming perpetrators.
French
Par une méthode de mesures perceptuelles et démographiques effectuées sur une cohorte de 223 immigrants Coréens, cette étude cherche È savoir s'il existe un modèle explicatif de violence conjugale. Un modèle contenant une variété de mesures perceptuelles et démographiques a pu expliquer 58,6% de la variabilité. Ce modèle pourrait être utilisé pour identifier des individus È risque de devenir des conjoints violents.
Spanish
Se investiga si existe un modelo que explique maltrato de pareja, usando medias preceptúales y demográficas entre 223 coreanos inmigrantes. Un modelo pudo explicar 58.6 percent de la varianza. Estos modelos pueden ser útiles para identificar individuos en riesgo de convertirse en perpetradores.
... The results indicated that participant knowledge of domestic violence and healthy relationships increased. Ahn's (2006) study indicated educational efforts and awareness campaigns in the Korean language could potentially help Korean American communities to identify abuse early and implement problem-solving skills that could prevent the Brittany Tetreault,Neelam Punjani,and Mary Olukotun | 71 occurrence of violence among couples. Choi et al. (2019) conducted a study in which Korean American faith leaders in a Southeastern US state received an educational intervention in the form of three online modules. ...
... By far, the most common technical weakness encountered in the examined studies was insufficient sample size (Ahn 2006;Alaggia et al. 2012;Ashbourne and Baobaid 2019;Celaya-Alston 2010;Choi et al. 2019;Kelly and Pich 2014;Kim 2021;Morales-Campos et al. 2009;Zaidi et al. 2015). While one article cited recruitment difficulty (Zaidi et al. 2015) and another cited financial and temporal restrictions (Morales-Campos et al. 2009), no other study provided any reasoning for the small sample size or preference for a qualitative approach. ...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread issue in immigrant communities and has severe implications for well-being and safety. With a limited body of knowledge on IPV in Canadian immigrant communities that only scarcely informs or enhances existing programs and services, this scoping review focused on existing interventions across G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) for more answers. Using Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) five stages of scoping reviews, we identified four major forms of intervention rooted in: Education and Awareness, Service and Resource Provision, Collaborative Partnerships and Networking, Mental Health and Counseling. Gaps in extant literature on intervention include: Limited knowledge about immigrant men in general, queer and gender-diverse immigrants; effectiveness of joint (including both partners) interventions; and the impacts of differential immigration status. Our findings call for IPV intervention research that, where possible, accounts for both partners’ experiences, and considers varied immigration statuses among participants, both systemic and interpersonal factors, the broader circumstances of immigrants’ lives, and queer and gender-diverse dimensions.
... (see Ahn, 2006;Ayyub, 2000;Bhanot & Senn, 2006;Bhuyan et al., 2005;Dasgupta, 2000;Goel, 2005;Hicks, 2006;Hurwitz, 2006;Lee, 2007;Merchant, 2000;Midlarsky et al., 2006;. Immigrant domestic violence affects immigrants of all races, ethnicities, educational and income levels. ...
... Many of the issues that affect the Latino immigrant community are also prevalent in other immigrant communities. Recently-arrived, or first generation, Korean immigrants display high rates of domestic violence (Ahn, 2006). Families, especially those of Muslim immigrant women, are often reluctant to allow abused women to leave her abusive husband (Ayyub, 2000). ...
... Flört şiddeti, bireyleri ve toplumları psikolojik ve sosyal yönden olumsuz olarak etkileme potansiyeli olan bir halk sağlığı sorunu olarak ele alınmaktadır (Anasuri, 2016). Flört şiddetinin bireylerde anksiyete, depresyon, strese yol açtığı, ilişkilerde çatışmaya neden olduğu ve romantik ilişki kalitesini olumsuz etkilediği bilinmektedir (Ahn, 2006;Volpe, Hardie ve Cerulli, 2012). ...
Amaç: Flört şiddeti, beliren yetişkinlik döneminde bulunana bireylerin romantik ilişkilerini psikolojik ve sosyal yönden etkileyen önemli bir sorun olarak görülmektedir. Araştırmacılar romantik ilişkilerde meydana gelen flört şiddetinin nedenlerini belirlemek amacıyla çeşitli araştırmalar yapmışlardır. Ancak flört şiddeti ile ilgili yapılan araştırmalarda transaksiyonel analiz ve şema teorisinin birlikte ele alındığı araştırmaların daha az olduğu belirlenmiştir. Bundan dolayı, bu araştırmada, üniversite öğrencilerinde flört şiddetini yordanmasında ego durumları ve erken dönem uyumsuz şemaların yordayıcı rolünün belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Yöntem: Araştırma, xx Üniversitesi xx Eğitim Fakültesi’nde çeşitli bölümlere devam eden 287 lisans öğrencisi (196 kadın, 91 erkek) üzerinde ilişkisel araştırmaya uygun olarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmada veri toplama aracı olarak, Flört Şiddeti Tutum Ölçeği, Ego Durumları Ölçeği ve Young Şema Ölçeği-Kısa Form 3 kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda elde edilen verilerin analizinde Pearson momentler çarpımı korelasyon analizi ve çoklu regresyon analizinden yararlanılmıştır. Bulgular: Araştırma sonucunda elde edilen bulgular, üniversite öğrencilerinde eleştirel ebeveyn, doğal çocuk ve uyarlanmış çocuk ego durumları ile erken dönem uyumsuz şemalardan, zedelenmiş otonomi ve diğerleri yönelimlilik şemalarının flört şiddetinin anlamlı yordayıcıları olduğunu ortaya koymuştur. Sonuç: Bireylerin flört şiddetine yönelik tutumlarını açıklamada erken dönem uyumsuz şemaların ve ego durumlarının yordayıcı rolünün olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.
... Upon arrival in the United States, Korean families are faced with stressful and tense experiences due to behaviors, cultures, and norms that are quite different from those of home. Many Korean immigrants also suffer from a loss of social support systems, social status and language barrier, and confront unemployment or underemployment, racism and discrimination, inability to adjust to the mainstream culture, the consequences of their children's education, family stresses, and a generation gap between parents and children causing different levels of adjustment (Ahn, 2006). ...
Some groups of women are more vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV) due to particular risks and/or experiences: women with disabilities, elderly women, and immigrant women (DEI). Too often, their reality goes unnoticed, especially for those belonging to more than one of these groups. In this literature review, researchers used an intersectional approach to document the similarities and differences in how DEI women experience IPV, in terms of forms and consequences, as well as related risk factors, explanatory theories, and prevention strategies. Researchers selected 56 articles for review based on the following inclusion criteria: studies on adults living in a situation of IPV, studies on one of the three demographics under study (DEI), studies about one or multiple research questions, and studies based on empirical data relying on research methodology in either French or English. Researchers evaluated each selected article for its quality according to a chart that was specially developed for this review. The results highlight existing “intersections” between these groups to help understand the influence of belonging to more than one vulnerability group on these women’s experiences with IPV. The importance to better training social workers and developing policies and programs that target the social determinants of health to prevent IPV experienced by DEI is also discussed.
p> This articles reviews and synthesizes the existing empirical studies on intimate partner violence among Korean immigrant women. A comprehensive search of the literature was conducted for the period of 1997 to 2017. From 9 eligible studies that met the inclusion criteria, prevalence rates and risk factors of intimate partner violence and help seeking behavior among Korean immigrant women are discussed. Based on the findings of this review, suggestions for future research are presented. </p
This investigation examined subjective evaluations of spousal aggression as a function of sex of the aggressor, severity of the violence, and sex of the respondent. Male and female respondents evaluated male violence and female violence equally. Forms of violence implying greater physical harm were evaluated more negatively, and all forms of violence were evaluated more negatively when the male was the aggressor. Both men and women who reported experiences as aggressors or victims in their relationships evaluated aggression less negatively than individuals with no history of violence in their relationships. Respondents offered similar situations legitimizing male violence and female violence.
Current myths about Asian Americans as quiet, nonproblematic, and self-managing ignore the problems faced by Korean immigrant battered women. Wife abuse is no stranger to Korean culture. This book provides insights on how Korean immigrant families' cultural conflict during their adjustment period often brings out wife abuse in their homes. The author cites attitudes toward traditionalism as a significant contributing factor, noting that couples who adhere to rigid sex-roles are more violent than couples who are less rigid. The author also illustrates differences between battered and nonbattered groups with regard to stress-evoking factors and reviews patterns in crisis management and problem-solving methods reported by battered Korean women. This is a volume that will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, and feminists.
The current study uses survey data from a representative sample of 619 husbands residing in Bangkok, Thailand, to assess their use of physical force against their wives. Multivariate analyses are performed and a series of logistic regressions are estimated for an integrated theoretical model derived from resource, structural, and social psychological theories. The results provide strong support for the importance of socioeconomic status, marital instability, and verbal marital conflict as predictors of Thai wife abuse.
Data from a nationally representative sample of 2,143 adult men & women were used to explore the relationship between wives' dependency on marriage and wife abuse. While family violence researchers have posited such a relationship, it has not been empirically demonstrated. The independent variables were indexes of wives' objective (economic) and subjective (perceived) marital dependency. The dependent variables assessed the presence of acts of physical aggression toward wives that carried a high risk of serious injury (severe violence) and those that did not carry such a risk (minor violence). Both dimensions of dependency were positively related to abuse. However, wives' subjective marital dependency was significantly related to minor, but not severe violence, and wives' objective marital dependency followed the opposite pattern. These results indicate that it is economic and not psychological dependency which keeps women in severely abusive marriages.
The present research approached sexual and spousal assault from a perspective that integrated both feminist and psychodynamic theory. Men from four research groups - Sexual Offender (SO, n = 19), Batterer (B, n = 22), Violent Community Comparison (VCC, n = 10). and Community Comparison (CC, n = 21) -were compared on their responses to a questionnaire including demographic personality and attitudinal variables. The following hypothoses : (1) h e i0 and B Groups would demonstrate similar personality and attitudinal characteristics and differ from the CC Group; (2) memb&s of the community who reported violence (VCC) would resemble the SO and B Groups and differ from the CC Group. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance and discriminant function analysis. As expected, the B Group shared many characteristics with the SO Group but differed in being less tolerant of minor initations and frustrations, and more likely to bedespondent and to ruminate over potential interpersonal harm. SOs were more likely to endorse the belief hat interpersonal violence is an acceptable part of relationships than were Bs. The VCC Group responded in a similar but less deviant manner than the B Group. The SO and B Groups differed from the CC Group on several variables. The VCC and CC Groups differed on only one variable. The discriminating variables correctly classified 75% of the participants in the study. Hostility toward women and Depression were the two best discriminating variables, suggesting that a combined feminist-psychodynamic approach may be helpful in understanding male aggression against women.
Development of research on intrafamily conflict and violence requires both conceptual clarity and measures of the concepts. The introduction to this paper therefore seeks to clarify and distinguish the concepts of "conflict," "conflict of interest," "hostility," and "violence." The main part of the paper describes the Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales. The CT Scales are designed to measure the use of Reasoning, Verbal Aggression, and Violence within the family. Information is presented on the following aspects of this instrument: theoretical rational, acceptability to respondents, scoring, factor structure, reliability, validity, and norms for a nationally representative sample of 2,143 couples.
Presents evidence from diverse sources to document the prevalence of violence directed at wives in contemporary societies. Analysis of police and court records and of interviews with women who have been beaten by their husbands shows that the incidence of wife beating is high, and that it is firmly associated with the domination, control, and chastisement of women in their position as wives. (52 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
prevalence and correlates of courtship aggression / theoretical models of relationship aggression / why have a model specific to courtship aggression / a causal model of courtship aggression / the role of consequences in the model of dating aggression / the interaction of the two components
in order to predict, treat, and prevent courtship aggression, it is necessary to understand the factors related to it / researchers have searched for causes and correlates of dating aggression / a detailed summary of the factors previously found to relate to courtship aggression is included [in this chapter] in the description of a proposed model of aggression in dating relationships (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
The implications of racial differences for shelter services has become an increasing concern with the expansion and development of shelters for battered women. This study employs bivariate cross-tabulations and discriminant analysis of shelter intake and exit interviews to determine the most influential variables in differentiating anglo, black, and hispanic women. The groups appear to be differentiated most by income and marital related variables, and very little by abuse and help-seeking variables. The findings suggest that the greatest differences overall are between anglo and hispanic women, and that additional economic and educational supports need to be directed to the hispanic group.
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Physicians must learn to recognize the victims of family violence among their patients and must then work to prevent such abuse. To help provide information that can help physicians understand and prevent family violence, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is involved in gathering data that will enable scientists (1) to see the patterns of family violence, (2) to determine the risk factors, and (3) to evaluate interventions to prevent future violence. Then the task will be (4) to establish programs of prevention on a successful scale. The author describes several specific CDC programs designed to meet these four goals, with the ultimate goal being the drastic lowering of incidences of family violence. Medical schools can help reach that goal by using the knowledge gained by such research for curriculum development to train physicians to treat and prevent family violence.
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