Family Conflict/Violence Patterns in India

Dhawan, Nisha; Punetha, Deepa; Sinha, Yoganand; Gaur, Shubhra P.; Tyler, Sandra L.; Tyler, Forrest B.

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“…Social norms affect not only a woman's decision to seek help, but also the response she receives should she seek it (Dhawan et al, 1999). Policies aimed at changing norms around marital violence and strengthening formal institutional recourse for domestic violence, such as in the legal and health care sectors, are necessary.…”

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“…Qualitative studies from other cultures also suggest education is not strongly associated with seeking help (Okenwa et al, 2009). More work is needed to understand if the benefits of education can facilitate overcoming personal or cognitive barriers, such as fear and stigma that are strong deterrents of seeking help (Coast, Leone, & Malviya, 2012; Dhawan et al, 1999; Montalvo-Liendo, 2009). Concerning wealth, we found no significant relationship with help-seeking, consistent with other studies from India that show that women from wealthier families who experience IPV are the least likely to seek help (Visaria, 2008).…”

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Is Women’s Empowerment Associated With Help-Seeking for Spousal Violence in India?

Rowan

Mumford

Clark

2015

J Interpers Violence

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Violence against women by their husbands is a problem for women worldwide. However, the majority of women do not seek help. This article presents findings from a national survey in India on empowerment-related correlates of help-seeking behaviors for currently married women who experienced spousal violence. We examined individual-, relationship-, and state-level measures of empowerment on help-seeking from informal and formal sources. Findings indicate that help-seeking is largely not associated with typical measures of empowerment or socio-economic development, whereas state-level indicators of empowerment may influence help-seeking. Although not a target of this study, we also note that injury from violence and the severity of the violence were among the strongest factors related to seeking help. Taken together, the low prevalence of help-seeking and lack of strong individual-level correlates, apart from severe harm, suggests widespread barriers to seeking help. Interventions that affect social norms and reach women and men across social classes in society are needed in addition to any individual-level efforts to promote seeking help for spousal violence.

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Is Women’s Empowerment Associated With Help-Seeking for Spousal Violence in India?

Rowan

Mumford

Clark

2015

J Interpers Violence

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“…Thus, the early formation of these attitudes is a strong predictor variable of violence in conjugal relationships. Such attitudes were found to be strongly associated with parenting styles (of mothers) that favour the male child over the female child (Dhawan et al, 1999). While such non-egalitarian attitudes may be a cultural norm, the subjective factors that lead to the decision to use violence can be traced to individual dysfunctional characteristics such as suspicion, negativism, masked dependency, low self-esteem of the perpetrator, suspicion, fear of abandonment, internalization of cultural beliefs and values such as acceptance of physical chastisement of women and male dominance in the family (Ahuja, 1988;Dhawan et al, 1999;Kulkarni, 1988;Mitra, 2002;Sriram and Mukherjee, 2001).…”

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“…Profiles of victims and perpetrators of domestic violence. The bulk of findings of psychological studies on domestic violence focus on the vulnerability of the victim in terms of age, social, economic and coping resources, and delineation of the precipitating/causal factors associated with the violence (Dhawan et al, 1999;Mitra, 2002;Sriram and Mukherjee, 2001;Vindhya, 1997).…”

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Quality of Women's Lives in India: Some Findings from Two Decades of Psychological Research on Gender

Vindhya

2007

Feminism & Psychology

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Research on gender is being increasingly recognized as critical to accomplishing the goals of societal development. This article reviews the engagement of psychological research in India with issues of gender over the last two decades in particular and the consequent production of knowledge about quality of women's lives. Three significant areas of inquiry can be identified: the work—family interface; mental health experiences; and violence against women. The work—family linkage among urban middle-class women is vigorously pursued in mainstream psychological research reflective of a sample bias. Mental health and domestic violence, on the other hand, are areas of research emanating from the cross-disciplinary engagement between academics and advocacy groups and characterized by a critical women's studies perspective, calling attention to the power relations that are disempowering forces in women's lives.

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“…Violence against women is deeply ingrained in the Indian socio-cultural environment (Soundrajan, 1995). While various case studies and newspaper publications have documented the common occurrence of domestic violence in India, there is still a lack of data and intervention research on spouse abuse and family violence (Dhawan et al, 1999).…”

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A Re-Examination of the Current Status and Future of Family Therapy in India

Mittal

Hardy

2005

Contemp Fam Ther

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Marital and family counseling has existed in India for many decades. However, the formalized discipline of marital and family counseling/therapy has its theoretical foundation in the West. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the need for and the current status of the practice of marriage and family therapy (MFT) in India. Based on our limited experiences we have attempted to prognosticate the future of the profession of family therapy in India by proposing a number of salient issues that we think would be useful discussion points as the development and advancement of family therapy in India is considered. KEY WORDS: Marriage and family therapy; India; status of profession.Marital and family counseling in India is not new. Indian folk tales and scriptures make references to and present numerous examples of advice being given by a large range of persons such as family members, doctors, lawyers, and priests, to married individuals as well as to those on the threshold of marriage (Mane, 1991). However, the formalized discipline of marital and family counseling/therapy (MFT) has its theoretical foundation in the West. Indians experiencing emotional problems typically visit native healers, gurus, and exorcists (Davar, 1999) before approaching a counselor or therapist. Mental health services are mostly sought as either a last resort Mona Mittal, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at

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Family Conflict/Violence Patterns in India

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Is Women’s Empowerment Associated With Help-Seeking for Spousal Violence in India?

Is Women’s Empowerment Associated With Help-Seeking for Spousal Violence in India?

Quality of Women's Lives in India: Some Findings from Two Decades of Psychological Research on Gender

A Re-Examination of the Current Status and Future of Family Therapy in India

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