Background & aim: In recent years, violence against women has been an important problem in developing and developed countries; In such a way that the World Health Organization has declared domestic ...violence as a public health epidemic. Violence against women is a complex social phenomenon with psychological, physical, and moral damage. Hence, the present study was designed to investigate the prevalence of domestic violence and its related factors in married women aged 18-49 years in Yasuj, Iran. Methods: The present cross-sectional (descriptive-analytic) study was conducted by simple random sampling, with 384 married women aged 18-49 years with a minimum of one-year marriage were enrolled from four urban health centers. Data were collected using demographic and domestic violence (33 questions in physical, verbal, emotional and financial aspects) questionnaires. Data were analyzed by the SPSS 23 software using descriptive and analytic (logistic regression) statistics. Results: The mean age of women was 29.32 ± 5.89 years, the mean age of marriage was 21.55 ± 4.20 years. The mean age and marriage age of the husbands were 33.92 ± 6.62 and 26.47 ±4.28 years, respectively. About 90 women had experienced domestic violence during their lifetime. The most common types of violence were verbal (80), emotional (73), financial (48) and physical (22), respectively. The most common form of verbal violence was yelling (29) and verbal arguments (21). The most common form of emotional violence was the husband's interference in the relationship between the wife and her family members (18), the husband's dominance and the expectation of the wife's obedience (17). The most common form of financial violence was reluctantly paying alimony to the wife (12) and also the husband making financial decisions without asking the wife’s opinion (10). The most common form of physical violence was pushing (11.5), slapping (9) and throwing objects (9). According to logistic regression analysis, husband's age at marriage was the only predictive factor of domestic violence against women (Exp β =0/925, CI0/95 Expβ=0/86-0/99, Sig= 0/0025). Conclusion: Considering the high prevalence of domestic violence against women, especially verbal and emotional violence, teaching life skills, especially communication skills in marital life, is necessary in premarital counseling.
Psychological abuse, such as verbal abuse, has received less attention than physical violence because of the manifested bodily harm caused by physical violence; however, verbal abuse has the highest ...percentage of violence worldwide. The consequences of verbal abuse in Saudi Arabia are similar to those in other countries. This study aims to determine the prevalence of verbal workplace violence in 12 months, the circumstances related to the event, and the consequences to both the attacker and the target person at all healthcare providers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This cross-sectional study included all healthcare providers registered with the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties who had worked for more than one year in the health sector in Saudi Arabia by May 2019. The researchers distributed questionnaires to the participants via email. Descriptive statistics were used to represent the basic properties of the data. Correlations between categorically measured variables were explored using the chi-square test for independence. Overall, 7398 healthcare workers (HCWs) voluntarily participated in the study. Overall, 49.1% encountered verbal abuse. Those who worked in the private sector and in shifts, particularly evening shifts, were significantly exposed to verbal abuse. Furthermore, pharmacists, followed by physicians, had the highest prevalence of workplace violence. Workplace verbal violence is highly prevalent, making it a major concern. Patients and their relatives are mostly the offenders of HCWs. Psychological ordeal, increased overwork, and reduced work capacity are the consequences of verbal abuse. Most victims do not report verbal violence, and this may result in an incorrect estimation of the problem. Therefore, encouragement to report verbal violence and additional research in Saudi Arabia are required.
This work analyzes polemics verbal interactions on the subject of human rights in the current Brazilian context in comments of users of the social network site Facebook, paying attention to the ...linguistic strategies mobilized by them for the inscription of their points of view, as well as observing the functions that the disagreement, verbal violence and emotion canexert in the construction of public polemics on subjects related to the humanization of rights considered essential to life. For this, it is based on the studies of Amossy (2018, 2017a, 2017b) and works by authors like Kerbrat-Orecchioni (1998, 2006, 2014), Brown and Levinson (1999), among others. The results obtained from the analysis of the data suggest that verbal violence and emotion assume several functions in the interactions of users in social networking sites. Although they are not constitutive of the polemic, these linguistic strategies exacerbate the polemic, because they intensify the polarization and the disqualification of the other.
This study is meant to put a focus on the prevalence of emotional abuse in low-income states like the Sub-Saharan region.
Searching PubMed, Google scholar, and web of science during February and ...April 2021 a total of 2264 articles were identified, 27 met the inclusion criteria.
We added the results of 13 VAC (Violence Against Children and Youth) studies, conducted by UNICEF capturing information about experienced sexual, physical, or emotional violence in 13–24-year-olds, as well as 56 MIC (Multiple Indicator Cluster) studies, conducted by the CDC to research the disciplinary methods used with children aged 1–14 years in the past month by older household members.
Finally, in a meta-analytic approach, we aimed to calculate a pooled estimate of the prevalence.
The included studies depicted a wide range in prevalence rates across countries. For example, while the VAC study in Lesotho in 2018 showed low incidence rates of emotional violence (6.9 % Females, 3.8 % Males), the average prevalence recorded by the MIC study was as high as 57.8 % for females and 59.2 % for males. On average, the MIC studies displayed a higher incidence and the discrepancy of prevalence of emotional abuse between females and males was small. Calculating a pooled estimate of the prevalence was not possible, due to the heterogeneity of the data.
In general countries displayed a high prevalence. A standardized use of a uniform definition of emotional abuse might help to display a more homogenous data set in the future, giving the opportunity for pooled estimates of prevalence.
•Emotional abuse was not main focus of previous studies, rather other forms like sexual, physical abuse•Emotional abuse can lead to poor health in later life (higher prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes, obesity, smoking and alcohol abuse etc.)•There are no overall estimates about prevalence of emotional abuse in Sub-Saharan Africa so far
What people say can bring about some reactions. These reactions are called a perlocutionary act. This paper is aimed at describing the perlocutionary act of verbal violence against women. The ...objective of this writing is to identify the perlocutionary acts of the women as the victims of the violence verbally. The data were taken in DKI Jakarta and Sumatera Barat by using interviews, note-taking, recording, and questionnaires. There were around women as 30 respondents. These women were the victims of verbal violence domestically. The analysis was done by using the concept of speech act and verbal violence against women. The result of the analysis was descriptively and narratively done. Besides, the percentage was also used to highlight the number of occurrences of a certain perlocution. Having analyzed the data, it is found that there are two general reactions as the perlocution of the women, victims of verbal violence domestically. They are 1) arguing, 2) replying with the same words, 3) groveling, and 4) saying nothing but doing something like crying or being silent. ‘Saying nothing’ occurs more than others because the women surrendered with the circumstances that are also in line with the cycle of the violence itself.
O trabalho apresenta a análise de comentários da rede social Facebook, focalizando a construção argumentativa na interação e observando a violência verbal como estratégia argumentativa. A base ...teórica contempla o conceito de intencionalidade (Sandig, 2009), os estudos de argumentação (Ducrot, 1984; Plantin, 1996; Amossy, 2006), conceitos relativos às interações em ambientes digitais (Seara e Cabral, 2017; Graham e Hardaker, 2017; Maíz-Arévalo, 2019) e fundamentos da impolidez e da violência verbal (Culpeper, 2011; Kádár, 2019; Terkourafi, 2008). Um post do Facebook, sobre a violência contra a mulher, provocou comentários, os quais suscitaram respostas de outros usuários. Foram analisados comentários e suas respostas, com vistas à verificação da construção argumentativa e da função das marcas de violência nessa construção. As análises permitem observar que, no contexto das interações no Facebook, o conjunto de comentários constitui um texto co-construído e argumentativamente orientado, no qual a violência verbal cumpre importante função argumentativa.Palavras-chave: argumentação; violência verbal; redes sociais.
Violence against people is a widespread phenomenon and violence against people with disabilities even more common. Studies have examined different types of violence toward people with disabilities, ...but there has been almost no research to date on verbal violence involving people with intellectual or development disabilities (IDD). The present research focused on this subject. A qualitative study was conducted using an intervention program. The research questions were (a) what can help people with IDD expand their understanding of verbal violence and differentiate different situations of verbal violence and (b) what can help people with IDD expand their means for handling verbal violence of their own and that directed toward them? The sample included 64 people (45 males, 19 females; ages 22–75) with mild IDD, who were divided into four groups of 16 participants each in the intervention program. The findings indicate that the participants’ conceptualization of verbal violence improved after the intervention program. Three main themes were identified: (a) differentiation between good and bad; (b) choosing how to handle verbal violence; and (c) helping others cope with verbal violence. Consistent with the humanistic perspective, the findings show that people with IDD can learn to handle verbal violence toward them in a way that promotes their understanding, enables them to choose their reactions, and affects those around them, as well as strengthening their self-efficacy. The research contributes to the sparse knowledge regarding verbal violence, especially against people with IDD, and offers ways of intervening to help them handle verbal violence.
The increasing incidences of violence against doctors in their workplaces are an important reason for stress among these healthcare workers. Many incidences of workplace violence against doctors have ...been reported in the past and are also being continuously reported from different parts of the country as well as the world.
To determine the prevalence of workplace violence among doctors and to study the associated risk factors in a tertiary care hospital of Delhi, India.
A cross-sectional study was conducted using a self-administered semi-structured questionnaire. The contents were: data related to the workplace, incidences at work, violence prevention policy of the institution, reporting of incidences and follow-up, education and training for violence management. A total of 151 doctors participated in the study.
Total participants in the study were 151. The mean age of study participants was 26.73±4.24 years. Almost half (47.02%; 44.56% of males and 50.84% of females) of the doctors reported having an experience of violence during work hours in past 12 months. Among the cases, 39.4% were reported from Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology while Surgery, Medicine and other departments reported 29.6%, 26.8% and 4.2% respectively. Patients or their relatives were perpetrators in most of the cases. Maximum (87.3%) of the reported cases were of verbal violence while 8.6% of the cases were of physical violence. Younger doctors with less work experience were more prone to physical violence. Regarding the time of violence, 35.1% of such cases occurred during afternoon while 30.1% of them took place at night.
A large number of doctors had experienced violence in past 12 months in a tertiary care hospital of South Delhi, India. Verbal violence came out to be most common form of violence experienced by the doctors. Afternoon or night hours were the timings when majority of such cases were reported.
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