Abstract
<p>The most common type of violence against women is domestic violence so that it is considered as a general health crisis. Resilience is a self-healing method featured with positive emotional outcomes. Religious attitudes are of the probable grounds of development of resilience techniques among women who have been victim of domestic violence. The present study is aimed at determining correlation between religious attitudes and resilience among women with domestic violence. The present study is a descriptive correlative research. Selected Health centers in east and north districts of Tehran affiliated with Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Data gathering tools were a demographic information questionnaire, Connor-Davidson’s Resilience scale, and Serajzadeh’s “Muslim Religiosity questionnaire”.</p><p>We used Pearson correlation test to indicate the presence of correlation between resiliency and religious attitudes. Data analyses were performed in SPSS 16. Mean and standard deviation of religious attitudes and resilience among the women with domestic violence were 76.41±9.96, 68.46±15.68 respectively. The results showed that there was correlation between religious attitude and resilience among women who have been subject to domestic violence. (P&lt;0.001, r=0.24). Women under domestic violence had stronger religions attitudes and higher resilience strength. It appears that resilience among women subject to domestic violence and the effective factors on resilience and religious attitudes in particular (given the role of religion in Iranians’ lives) deserve special attention.</p>
Highlights
The most common type of violence against women is domestic violence or intimate partner violence (Soleiman Ekhtiari & Ahmadi, 2011) in marriage, dating relationship or cohabitation (Alokan, 2013)
The results showed that there was correlation between religious attitude and resilience among women who have been subject to domestic violence. (P
Present study was conducted with the aim of determine the correlation between religious attitudes with resiliency of women under domestic violence who were referred to Health Care Centers of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Summary
The most common type of violence against women is domestic violence or intimate partner violence (Soleiman Ekhtiari & Ahmadi, 2011) in marriage, dating relationship or cohabitation (Alokan, 2013). Domestic violence includes various aspects such as physical violence, mental violence, sexual violence (Aghakhani, Eftekhari, Zare Kheirabad, & Mousavi, 2012). Domestic violence is considered as a general health crisis with considerable physical and mental negative effects (Perez, Johnson, & Wright, 2012). The importance of this issue to the extent that UN General Assembly, declared the 25th of November, the International Day for the Elimination of gjhs.ccsenet.org. Domestic violence is considered a stressor, which affects the health and function of one person and leads to considerable health problems and decrease quality of life (Bauman, Haaga, Kaltman, & Dutton, 2012). Murders that occur in connection with domestic violence, are just the tip of the iceberg in comparison with the adverse effects these kind of violence leaves (Davis, 2010)
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