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Emotional profile of women victims of domestic violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

E. Avdibegovic
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Center, Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina
O. Sinanovic
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University Clinical Center, Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Abstract

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The aim of this research was to analyze the emotional profile of women victims of domestic violence comparing it with the emotional profile of women who did not experience domestic violence.

It was analyzed totally 283 women, while 215 of them were victims of domestic violence and 68 who did not experience domestic violence. To identify domestic violence used was the modified inventory of domestic violence, which consisted of three parts: inventory of psychological, physical and sexual abuse. In both groups of women applied was the Profile index of emotion – Pluchik test. Collected were also basic socio-demographic data.

The average age of women was 43.27±9.69 years and most of the women (156 or 55%) were married. According to the level of education most of the women had a high school degree (111 or 39.2%), and related to the employment 164 or 58.0% were unemployed. Among the abused, 107 (50.7%) experienced a combination of various forms of domestic violence. Using nonparametric tests (Median and Kruskal-Wallis test) it has shown that women victims of domestic violence had significantly lower values in dimension of reproduction (P<0.001), incorporation (P<0.001) and BIAS (P<0.001), and significantly higher values in dimension of depression (P<0.001), opposition (P=0.029) and aggressiveness (P=0.002).

According to the results obtained by this research can be concluded that women victims of domestic violence had a lower level of sociability and trust in people, lower need to be socially accepted and increased values of dimension of fear, sadness, rejection and aggressiveness

Type
Poster Session 1: Antipsychotic Medications
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2007
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