@article{ref1,
title="Psychosocial factors associated to violence against women",
journal="Romanian journal of legal medicine",
year="2015",
author="Velea, Ovidiu Popa and Truţescu, Carmen and Curca, George Cristian",
volume="23",
number="3",
pages="221-226",
abstract="Domestic violence has an important dimension in the contemporary world, as it has become not only an epidemiologically meaningful phenomenon, but also a matter of concern for the society. Our study explores several predictive psychosocial factors, associated to domestic violence in Romanian women attending a Legal Medicine service and seeking for a clinical legal medicine examination. A number of n = 46 female participants were finally recruited in the study (mean age = 43.77, min. = 24, max. = 81, SD = 12.05). They were administered a semi-structured interview, consisting of 12 questions exploring the role of the social and demographic factors in the occurrence of violence, the types of violence, and the self-awareness regarding the implications of violence and subsequent life decisions. Parametric (Pearson correlations, linear regression) and non-parametric tests (Spearman correlations, chi-square tests) were used to explore the relationship between scores derived from the interview and domestic violence. <br><br>RESULTS show that low education, alcohol abuse of the aggressor and age of the victim higher than the age of the aggressor (in informal relationships) were correlated significantly to a higher frequency of aggressions (p =.036 and p =.0003, respectively), whereas early report on the aggressions correlated significantly to high education of the victim (p =.03). Intentions on reaction to aggression were numerous and distributed widely, however 6 months after the events only 6.52% of participants took any kind of measures against their aggressor. This study has implications in better tailoring education and psychological interventions in support of women victims of domestic violence.   Keywords: violence, domestic, victim, education.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1221-8618",
doi="10.4323/rjlm.2015.221",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4323/rjlm.2015.221"
}