Can People's Patriarchal Ideology Predict Their Beliefs about Wife Abuse? The Case of Jordanian Men

Autor/in	Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M.
Titel	Can People's Patriarchal Ideology Predict Their Beliefs about Wife Abuse? The Case of Jordanian Men
Quelle	In: Journal of Community Psychology, 33 (2005) 5, S.545-567 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-4392
DOI	10.1002/jcop.20068
Schlagwörter	Spouses; Family Violence; Questionnaires; Correlation; Ideology; Foreign Countries; Punishment; Beliefs; Predictor Variables; Arabs; Cultural Influences; Measures (Individuals); Gender Differences; Marriage; Religious Factors; Attitude Measures; Jordan; Attitudes Toward Women Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ehepartner; Fragebogen; Korrelation; Ideologie; Ausland; Bestrafung; Belief; Glaube; Prädiktor; Arab; Araber; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Messdaten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ehe
Abstract	A self-administered questionnaire was filled out by 349 Jordanian men to examine the correlation between their patriarchal ideology and their beliefs about wife abuse. The results revealed that high percentages of Jordanian men tended to justify wife abuse, to blame women for violence against them, and to believe that women benefit from beating. In addition, the Jordanian men expressed low levels of willingness to help battered women, and very small percentages of them tended to believe that husbands are responsible for their violent behavior and that violent husbands should be punished. The findings indicate that significant amounts of the variance in those six beliefs can be explained by the six predictors investigated in this study, which derive from patriarchal ideology, over and above the amount of variance in those beliefs about wife abuse that can be attributed to the men's sociodemographic characteristics. The implications of the results for future research and theory development are discussed. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10