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Jordanian Men's Experience of Emotional Abuse in Marital Relationships: The Role of Marriage Length and Motivation

Though emotional abuse is one of the worst and most common types of intimate partner violence, it has not been investigated in Arabic literature. Thus, this study explored the prevalence of emotional abuse among married Jordanian men. Furthermore, the moderating roles of marriage length, marriage mo...

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Autores principales: Alsawalqa, Rula Odeh, Sa'deh, Yara Abdel Rahman, Alrawashdeh, Maissa N.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8353177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34385958
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689235
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author Alsawalqa, Rula Odeh
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description Though emotional abuse is one of the worst and most common types of intimate partner violence, it has not been investigated in Arabic literature. Thus, this study explored the prevalence of emotional abuse among married Jordanian men. Furthermore, the moderating roles of marriage length, marriage motivation, age, and area in the path to emotional abuse were investigated. An online survey was conducted using a random sample of Jordanian married men in Amman. A total of 1,003 participants with an average age of 42.51 and a marital relationship duration ranging from 1 to 53 years were selected. The results revealed that isolation was the most prevalent emotional abuse domain, followed by degradation, property damage, and sexual coercion. However, all emotional abuse domains were more prevalent among rural rather than urban men, in both traditional and love marriages. Emotional abuse was higher among men who married for love. Younger men reported experiencing higher emotional abuse levels, which declined with age and increasing marriage length. Further research is required to explore the nature of emotional abuse forms and their underlying reasons among married men, as differences in sociodemographic characteristics could affect the identification and understanding of emotional abuse and contribute to developing an intellectual framework capable of finding solutions for abusive marital relations in the Jordanian context.
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spelling pubmed-83531772021-08-11 Jordanian Men's Experience of Emotional Abuse in Marital Relationships: The Role of Marriage Length and Motivation Alsawalqa, Rula Odeh Sa'deh, Yara Abdel Rahman Alrawashdeh, Maissa N. Front Psychol Psychology Though emotional abuse is one of the worst and most common types of intimate partner violence, it has not been investigated in Arabic literature. Thus, this study explored the prevalence of emotional abuse among married Jordanian men. Furthermore, the moderating roles of marriage length, marriage motivation, age, and area in the path to emotional abuse were investigated. An online survey was conducted using a random sample of Jordanian married men in Amman. A total of 1,003 participants with an average age of 42.51 and a marital relationship duration ranging from 1 to 53 years were selected. The results revealed that isolation was the most prevalent emotional abuse domain, followed by degradation, property damage, and sexual coercion. However, all emotional abuse domains were more prevalent among rural rather than urban men, in both traditional and love marriages. Emotional abuse was higher among men who married for love. Younger men reported experiencing higher emotional abuse levels, which declined with age and increasing marriage length. Further research is required to explore the nature of emotional abuse forms and their underlying reasons among married men, as differences in sociodemographic characteristics could affect the identification and understanding of emotional abuse and contribute to developing an intellectual framework capable of finding solutions for abusive marital relations in the Jordanian context. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8353177/ /pubmed/34385958 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689235 Text en Copyright © 2021 Alsawalqa, Sa'deh and Alrawashdeh. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sa'deh, Yara Abdel Rahman
Alrawashdeh, Maissa N.
Jordanian Men's Experience of Emotional Abuse in Marital Relationships: The Role of Marriage Length and Motivation
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title_full Jordanian Men's Experience of Emotional Abuse in Marital Relationships: The Role of Marriage Length and Motivation
title_fullStr Jordanian Men's Experience of Emotional Abuse in Marital Relationships: The Role of Marriage Length and Motivation
title_full_unstemmed Jordanian Men's Experience of Emotional Abuse in Marital Relationships: The Role of Marriage Length and Motivation
title_short Jordanian Men's Experience of Emotional Abuse in Marital Relationships: The Role of Marriage Length and Motivation
title_sort jordanian men's experience of emotional abuse in marital relationships: the role of marriage length and motivation
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8353177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34385958
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689235
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