Domestic Violence and Women's Mental Health in Chile

Autor/inn/en	Ceballo, Rosario; Ramirez, Cynthia; Castillo, Marcela; Caballero, Gabriela Alejandra; Lozoff, Betsy
Titel	Domestic Violence and Women's Mental Health in Chile
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28 (2004) 4, S.298-308 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1111/j.1471-6402.2004.00147.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Structural Equation Models; Mental Health; Family Violence; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Mothers; Correlation; Socioeconomic Status; Chile (Santiago); United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Psychohygiene; Mother; Mutter; Korrelation; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; USA
Abstract	Domestic violence against women is a pervasive, global health problem. This study investigates the correlates and psychological outcomes of domestic abuse among women in a semi-industrial country. The participants included 215 mothers residing in working-class communities located on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. We utilized structural equation modeling to test the hypothesis that poverty and other structural inequalities would be related to incidents of domestic abuse in Chile, as they are in the United States. Our results suggest that lower socioeconomic status, even within poor communities, and stressful life events have a direct relationship to domestic conflict. Domestic abuse was, in turn, associated with women's mental health such that greater domestic conflict was related to higher reports of depressive affect and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. The importance of identifying similarities and differences in the occurrence of domestic violence in developing countries as compared to industrialized countries is discussed. (Author).
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