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Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Types Are Common Among Turkish Women From High Socioeconomic Status and Have Differing Effects on Child Abuse and Contentment With Life

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Gul, Hesna·2020·Northern Clinics of Istanbul
DOI 10.14744/nci.2020.46514PMC PMC7521104
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OBJECTIVE: Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is an important public health problem. In this study, we aimed to investigate the exposure of IPV types, child abuse and decrease in life contentment of married women from high socioeconomic status in Turkey. METHODS: Data were collected using an online/written questionnaire and Contentment with Life Scale. The questionnaire included definitions of physical, emotional, economic and sexual IPV and asked how many times they experienced these types of abuse. RESULTS: We found that physical, emotional, economic and sexual IPV exposure were 19%, 45.2%, 12.5%, and 6%, respectively, which suggest that IPV types were common in this group, too. Physical child abuse was higher among physical and emotional IPV victims (p=0004, p=0.02, respectively), while emotional child abuse was higher only among physical IPV victims (p=0.01). On the other hand, exposure to economic and sexual IPV was not related to any type of child abuse in this sample (p>0.05). Physical and economic IPV victims were statistically older (p=0.004, p<0.001, respectively), married for longer time (p<0.001 for both) and had relatively lower education level (p<0.001 for both), while sexual IPV victims had lower education level than non-victims (p=0.03). We demonstrated that physical-emotional and sexual intramarital IPV significantly reduce the women's contentment with life scores when compared with non-victims (p=0.02, p<0.001 and p=0.03, respectively). CONCLUSION: IPV exposure is also severe among married women with high socioeconomic levels and is associated with child abuse in the family and a decrease in life contentment. Lengthened education period among women with similar socioeconomic levels may be an additional protective factor for IPV by delaying the age of marriage and increasing the individual income.

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  • Economic control was initially significantly and negatively associated with quality of life, but the relationship was no longer significant after controlling for other indicators of financial empowerment.

    “A second longitudinal study also looked at the association between economic abuse; economic control was initially significantly and negatively associated with quality of life, however, the relationship was no longer significant after controlling for other indicators of financial empowerment (e.g., financial knowledge, economic self-sufficiency) [29].”

    From Examining the impact of economic abuse on survivors of intimate partner violence: a scoping review (2022) · cites this paper as [29]

    The Results report no significant difference in contentment with life between economic-IPV victims and non-victims (Table 3, p=0.053), contrary to the claimed initial significant association. The Discussion also identifies the study as cross-sectional, not longitudinal; the reported comparison does not include adjustment for financial-empowerment indicators. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • Economic abuse was not significantly associated with emotional or physical child abuse perpetration.

    “One cross-sectional study looked at associations between mother’s experiencing economic abuse and their perpetration of child abuse, but found that economic abuse was not significantly associated with emotional or physical child abuse perpetration [29].”

    From Examining the impact of economic abuse on survivors of intimate partner violence: a scoping review (2022) · cites this paper as [29]

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Authors
Gul, H.
Venue
Northern Clinics of Istanbul
Publisher
Kare Publishing
Published
2020
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
359-365
ISSN
2148-4902 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.14744/nci.2020.46514
PMC
PMC7521104
OpenAlex
W3003853610
Cited by
9
References
5
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 5
FWCI
0.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
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cc-by-nc
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  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Elder Abuse and Neglect
Keywords
intimate partner violence, child abuse, life satisfaction, married women, socioeconomic status, physical abuse, emotional abuse, economic violence, sexual abuse, educational attainment, protective factors, Turkey

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