Citation

Choi M, Harwood J. J. Transcult. Nurs. 2004; 15(3): 207-216.

Affiliation

University of Arizona, College of Nursing, Tucson, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1043659604265115

PMID

15189642

Abstract

Many abused married Korean women have a strong desire to leave their abusive husbands but remain in the abusive situations because of the strong influence of their sociocultural context. The article discusses Korean women's responses to spousal abuse in the context of patriarchal, cultural, and social exchange theory. Age, education, and income as component elements share common effects on the emergent variable, sociostructural power. Gender role attitudes, traditional family ideology, individualism/collectivism, marital satisfaction, and marital conflict predict psychological-relational power as a latent variable. Sociostructural, patriarchal, cultural, and social exchange theories are reconceptualized to generate the model of Korean women's responses to abuse.

Language: en