TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Dowry-related aggression and mental health concomitants among educated women in Pakistan
JO  - Journal of educational, health and community psychology
A1  - Khan, Taalia
A1  - Osterman, Karin
A1  - Bjorkqvist, Kaj
SP  - 442
EP  - 457
VL  - 9
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2088-3129
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/jehcp.v9i4.19033
ID  - ref1
ER  -