%0 Journal Article
%T Dowry-related aggression and mental health concomitants among educated women in Pakistan
%J Journal of educational, health and community psychology
%D 2020
%A Khan, Taalia
%A Osterman, Karin
%A Bjorkqvist, Kaj
%V 9
%N 4
%P 442-457
%X The aim of the study was to investigate victimization from dowry-related aggression and mental health concomitants in a sample of educated women in Pakistan. A questionnaire was completed by 569 women. The mean age was 31.4 years (SD 9.1). The questionnaire included two scales for measuring dowry-related aggression and four scales for measuring mental health concomitants.  The levels of victimization from dowry-related aggression were relatively low in the sample. Aggression carried out by the husband and the mother-in-law correlated highly with each other. The most common single act by both husbands and mothers-in-law was forcing the wife to give her gold to her mother-in-law or sister-in-law. Women who were more than average victimised from dowry-related aggression had significantly higher scores on anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and somatisation. Aggression carried out by the mother-in-law showed higher predictive power on all four mental health concomitants than aggression by the husband. Somatic symptoms of the daughter-in-law showed the highest association with aggression carried out by the mother-in-law. Victimization from dowry-related aggression was strongly associated with negative mental health outcomes. Aggression carried out by the mother-in-law was more strongly associated with them than aggression carried out by the husband.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
%@ 2088-3129
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/jehcp.v9i4.19033