The Influence of Palestinian Physicians’ Patriarchal Ideology and Exposure to Family Violence on Their Beliefs about Wife Beating

Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia; Cindy Sousa; Raghda Alnabilsy; Haneen Elias

doi:10.1007/s10896-015-9671-4

The Influence of Palestinian Physicians’ Patriarchal Ideology and Exposure to Family Violence on Their Beliefs about Wife Beating

Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia, Cindy Sousa, Raghda Alnabilsy, Haneen Elias

The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Abstract

The influence of Palestinian physicians’ patriarchal ideology (PAI) and exposure to family violence (EFV) on their beliefs about wife beating was examined. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by 396 physicians. The results revealed that notable percentages of the physicians expressed some level of willingness to justify wife beating, tendency to believe that battered women benefit from beating, and that battered women are to blame for their beating. Nevertheless, between 27 and 59 % of the physicians expressed some willingness to help battered women. The results also revealed that significant amounts of the variance in physicians’ beliefs about wife beating can be attributed to their PAI and to their EFV during childhood and adolescence.The implications of the results for future research, theory development, and training of physicians are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	263-276
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Family Violence
Volume	30
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-015-9671-4
State	Published - Apr 2015

Keywords

Domestic violence
Health practitioners
Intimate partner violence
Patriarchal theory
Social learning theory
Violence against women

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Clinical Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Law

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The Influence of Palestinian Physicians’ Patriarchal Ideology and Exposure to Family Violence on Their Beliefs about Wife Beating

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