TY - JOUR
T1 - Beliefs about wife beating among Palestinian women from Israel
T2 - The effect of their endorsement of patriarchal ideology
AU - Zaatut, Amarat
AU - Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - This study examines the influence of patriarchal ideology on women's beliefs about wife beating. A convenience sample of 701 married Palestinian women from Israel was obtained, and a self-report questionnaire was administered. The findings revealed that large percentages of Palestinian women expressed some tendency to justify wife beating in certain instances. In addition, some of the participants expressed some tendency to blame battered women for violence against them, and to believe that they benefit from beating. As hypothesized, endorsing patriarchal ideology was found to influence all three beliefs about wife beating held by Palestinian women in Israel, over and above the amount of variance in the women’s socio-demographic characteristics (e.g. age, education, employment, place of residence, and religion). The limitations of the study as well as the implications of the results for future research are discussed.
AB - This study examines the influence of patriarchal ideology on women's beliefs about wife beating. A convenience sample of 701 married Palestinian women from Israel was obtained, and a self-report questionnaire was administered. The findings revealed that large percentages of Palestinian women expressed some tendency to justify wife beating in certain instances. In addition, some of the participants expressed some tendency to blame battered women for violence against them, and to believe that they benefit from beating. As hypothesized, endorsing patriarchal ideology was found to influence all three beliefs about wife beating held by Palestinian women in Israel, over and above the amount of variance in the women’s socio-demographic characteristics (e.g. age, education, employment, place of residence, and religion). The limitations of the study as well as the implications of the results for future research are discussed.
KW - Arab women
KW - Palestinian women
KW - attitudes
KW - domestic violence
KW - intimate partner violence
KW - patriarchy
KW - violence against women
KW - wife beating
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84992751953&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0959353516647071
DO - 10.1177/0959353516647071
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AN - SCOPUS:84992751953
SN - 0959-3535
VL - 26
SP - 405
EP - 425
JO - Feminism and Psychology
JF - Feminism and Psychology
IS - 4
ER -
