Family Violence Against Married Women in Herat City: Security or Lack of Security

Ahmadi M, Wamiq MT and Modaber AA

Published on: 2024-04-08

Abstract

The presented research was done with the purpose of the investigation of domestic violence rate and its dimensions on the women of Herat. The presented research is applicable in terms of purpose is a descriptive- survey in terms of method, and is intermittent. The statistical society of this research is all the married women of Herat City, which are 384 people relying on Cochran’s sampling formula for a society with an unknown sample volume through a simple random sampling method. The tool of the research in this study is the standard questionnaire on “domestic violence against women” by Danish at. El (1396). The stability of the questionnaire was calculated as 0.96 through the Cronbach alpha method, which is higher than the acceptable rate of 0.7. To analyze the findings T-test of independent samples and the analysis of variance was used. The most of the respondents (322 people), 83.9% of people rarely experienced domestic violence. According to the results, the average experience of domestic violence among married women in Herat City is 1.10 (maximum score 4), which is much lower than the average. As a result, it is necessary to pay attention to the factors affecting the occurrence of domestic violence and especially emotional violence by some people, and this can be investigated by knowing the personality and social characteristics of people. Also, the media, educational, and awareness-raising institutions can play an effective role in reducing and controlling this social problem as much as possible by producing instructive content about the consequences of such violence for all family members. The women of Herat experienced emotional violence more than others, and after it, financial violence, psychological violence, social violence, verbal violence, physical violence, and sexual violence were the most common.