Whose Fault Is It?” How Rural Chinese Women Explain Intimate Partner Violence

A Qualitative Study

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15523923
AutoresFengsu Hou (0000-0001-5869-4365, University of Rochester Medicine), Catherine Cerulli (0000-0002-5200-3380, University of Rochester Medicine), Marsha N Wittink, Marsha Wittink (0000-0002-3037-9723, University of Rochester Medicine), Eric D Caine (University of Rochester Medicine), Peiyuan Qiu (0000-0002-6485-1459, Sichuan University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen12
Páginas711819-711819
Fecha de publicación2021-12-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFrontiers in Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1664-0640 • E-ISSN: 1664-0640
EditorialFrontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpsyt.2021.711819
PMID34925082
OpenAlexW3215839962
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas47

Women are often the victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Though China has established its first statute against domestic violence, the service developments for victims fall behind. It is important to assess community members' perceptions of what causes IPV to create interventions to prevent and address IPV. This study completed the Short Explanatory Model Interview (SEMI) among a subset sample from a large epidemiology study in rural Sichuan China. The social ecological model was applied to analyze qualitative interviews. Among 339 participants, the average age was 46.01 ± 12.42 years old. There were 31.86% of them had been educated, 14.75% of them had migrant worker partners, and 49.26% of them had experienced violence from their partners in the last year. There were 252 participants attributed IPV to individual factors, and they primarily discussed the social characteristics, behaviors, personalities or even health problems of the husband or the wife in the vignette. Under this theme, there were 86 participants blaming the victim for being anxious, social disconnectedness or lazy; and there were 166 participants blaming to the perpetrator being abusive, irresponsibility, lack of understanding, and cheating. There were 44 women believed the cause was relational, in which there were 41 participants attributed the problem to the broken relationship between the couple and three participants attributed to the lack of support. There were 28 participants believed the cause was communal and societal, such as being poor, family problems, fate, and believed IPV was a common scene. There were 15 participants could not identify the cause of IPV. These participants usually provided very brief responses and barely had insight on violent behaviors or confidence in discussing the cause. Our findings offer a direction for understanding the rural Chinese women's beliefs about the etiology of IPV to better develop interventions which must consider raising a public awareness campaign about the risk factors of IPV and focus on reducing self-blame among victims

Abusive relationship · Domestic violence · Environmental health · Poison control · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Qualitative research · Social support · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Vignette · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology