Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a long standing issue that affects women worldwide. In surviving the IPV, women often need to strategize to stay alive and to seek help to end the violence. It is important to explore their strategies for survival in this type of violent relationship. Such exploration remains uninvestigated especially in Malaysia. To fill in this gap, this study aims to examine the coping mechanism of women who have experienced IPV in Malaysia. A total number of 234 women experiencing IPV were recruited for this study and the respondents were chose from all States in the Peninsular Malaysia. The study involved a household survey using a random sampling of enumeration blocks to collect the data. The data were collected using the instrument of the WHO multi-country study. Prior to being interviewed, each respondent was given an information sheet, explaining the study, their rights to participate and withdraw from the interview, as well as the assurance of confidentiality. Results of the study indicate that about 83% (194) of the survivors attempted to seek help from individuals outside of their marriages and from the authorities. The majority of respondents informed individuals about their problem, which indicate the important role of family members and friends in providing intervention in IPV. About 16.5% of respondents reveal their issues to and seek help from the authorities and the majority of these were satisfied with the services they received from the authorities. In conclusion, this study suggests that intervention to IPV cases may be made more effective by understanding women’s help-seeking strategies and improving on these strategies. Keywords: Coping mechanism, intimate partner violence, experience, survivors, Malaysia
Highlights
Intimate partner violence or domestic violence come in various forms that range from using nasty words against a partner, shouting at her, kicking her on different parts of the body to threatening her life or killing her (Canada Violence Prevention Initiative, 2015)
In Malaysia, findings from the prevalence study done by Rashidah et al (2013) reported that 9 out of 100 women in Malaysia experienced Intimate partner violence (IPV)
This paper is based on a prevalence study of IPV in Malaysia, using the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s instrument
Summary
Intimate partner violence or domestic violence come in various forms that range from using nasty words against a partner, shouting at her, kicking her on different parts of the body to threatening her life or killing her (Canada Violence Prevention Initiative, 2015). Women in IPV suffer one or multiple forms of this violence. In Malaysia, findings from the prevalence study done by Rashidah et al (2013) reported that 9 out of 100 women in Malaysia experienced IPV. This percentage appears small, when applied to the total population of Malaysia, it can indicate a significant number of cases of IPV in the society, when compared to annual reported cases
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