Diyarbakır ilinde çok eşliliğin aile üyeleri üzerindeki olumsuz etkileri

Abstract

Purpose: We aimed to here, determine whether the different sociodemographic and clinical variables of polygamous and monogamous marriages.Materials and Methods: 104 polygamous husbands with 56 monogamous husbands from Diyarbakir which located in southeastern region of Turkey, were face to face interviewed, by the researchers. Complaints of all participants were assessed through the SCL-90-R test.Results: Our findings show that about 75% of the husbands were pleased to in polygamous marriages. There was significantly differences between senior wives and junior wives’ ages, in polygamous marriage. Polygamous husbands' GSI subscore, in SCL-90-R, along with their psychoticism, hostility and phobic anxiety's sub-scores were significantly higher than scores of monogamous husbands. Conclusion: A growing number of studies show that, polygamous marriage is associated with depressive and anxiety disorders, somatization disorders and a loss of self-esteem. In addition to, having the responsibility of supporting “multiple women and children”, men can have different problems in a polygamous marriage. It should be noted that, polygamy is a complex phenomenon with deep cultural, social, economic, and political roots that has been associated with child’s, husband’s and wive’s mental health symptoms. Our results, polygamous marriages are associated with higher risk for psychiatric disorders among the all family members, regardless of their education, family socioeconomic profiles and household composition as well as these results highlighted important implications for clinical practices and future researches.