Swimming against the Tide: Characteristics of Muslim-Arab Women in Israel Who Initiated Divorce

Autor/inn/en	Kulik, Liat; Klein, Dana
Titel	Swimming against the Tide: Characteristics of Muslim-Arab Women in Israel Who Initiated Divorce
Quelle	In: Journal of Community Psychology, 38 (2010) 7, S.918-931 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-4392
DOI	10.1002/jcop.20405
Schlagwörter	Divorce; Spouses; Muslims; Marital Status; Females; Substance Abuse; Sex Role; Arabs; Ideology; Individual Characteristics; Feminism; Social Attitudes; Comparative Analysis; Marital Satisfaction; Coping; Interpersonal Relationship; Environmental Influences; Educational Attainment; Employment Level; Foreign Countries; Social Influences; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ehescheidung; Ehepartner; Muslim; Muslimin; Familienstand; Weibliches Geschlecht; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Geschlechterrolle; Arab; Araber; Ideologie; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Feminismus; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Bewältigung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Beschäftigungsgrad; Ausland; Sozialer Einfluss
Abstract	The present study compared Muslim-Arab women in Israel who initiated divorce (n=45) with those who stayed in stressful marital relationships (n=46). Based on an ecological approach and using a cross-sectional design, we explored the differences between the two groups with regard to the following variables: personal resources (education, paid employment, hardiness, styles of coping with stressful situations, and egalitarian gender role ideology), spousal variables (evaluation of marital difficulties), and environmental resources (formal and informal support from the environment). The findings revealed that levels of education and rates of participation in the labor force were higher among the divorced women than among those who stayed in stressful marriages. In addition, the divorced women had a more egalitarian gender role ideology and tended to adopt problem-focused styles for coping with stressful situations, whereas the married women tended to combine emotion-focused and problem-focused styles. The main difficulty experienced by the divorced women was the husbands' violence, whereas the married women primarily experienced difficulties related to the husbands' alcoholism or drug addiction. In light of the findings, practical recommendations are presented. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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