Modeling Domestic Violence Based on Stressful Factors and Coping Strategies with the Mediating role of Emotion Regulation Difficulty in Victims of Spousal Abuse Women from Cultural Point of View

Subject Areas : Psychology

Zahra Amirifard ¹ , Majid Ebrahimpour ² , Nooshin Pordelan ³

1 - M. A. Student in Counseling, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Research Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Qaenat Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaenat, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Hum anities, Research Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2024-04-12 Accepted : 2024-06-11 Published : 2024-06-19

Keywords: Domestic violence, Stressful factors, Coping strategies, Emotion regulation difficulty, Victims of spousal abuse women,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was to propose the model of domestic violence based on stressful factors and coping strategies with the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulty in victims of spousal abuse women from cultural point of view. The statistical population of the research enfolded all women who were victims of spousal abuse that referred to welfare and social emergency of Kerman city during February to March of 2023. The sample included 241 subjects who were selected by convenience sampling procedure. The method of this research was descriptive of correlation type. Data was collected by implementation of Haj Yahya's Domestic Violence against Women Questionnaire (1999), Kudron's Stress Scales (2002), Andler and Parker's Coping Strategies Questionnaire (1990) and Gratz and Romer's Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2004). Data analysis was done using general model of structural equations and spss27 and pls4 software. The results showed that personality stress and life stress directly and indirectly had a significant positive effect on domestic violence through the mediation of emotion regulation difficulty. The results also revealed that coping strategies indirectly had a significant positive effect on domestic violence with the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulty (p<0/05). Therefore, it could be reported that stressful factors and coping strategies due to the mediating role of emotional regulation difficulty were among the factors that affected domestic violence in women who were victims of spousal abuse. Also, cultural components could increase or decrease spousal abuse against women in the family.

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