@article{Ali_2016, title={Self-esteem of Kurdish women faced domestic violence in Erbil city}, volume={20}, url={https://zjms.hmu.edu.krd/index.php/zjms/article/view/104}, DOI={10.15218/zjms.2016.0039}, abstractNote={<p style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fff7f3; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Background and objective: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in studying domestic abuse against women and its impact on self-esteem and coping style. The aim of this study was to make inquiries about types of domestic abuses among a sample of Kurdish women in addition to looking into the level of self-esteem of those who faced domestic violence.</span></p> <p style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fff7f3; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Methods: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">120 women who were victims of domestic abuse living in Erbil rural and urban surroundings were recruited from July 15</span><sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> to October 23</span><sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, 2014. Two scale questionnaires were implemented in this study; domestic abuse questionnaire was taken from Iman and Ahmadi and self-esteem questionnaire by Rosenberg. The data were analyzed through the use of the statistical package for the social sciences (version 11). The analysis systems used for the data management procedures were Pearson correlation coefficients, descriptive statistics, frequencies, and One-sample t-test.</span></p> <p style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fff7f3; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Results: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Physical abuse is the most frequently occurring domestic abuse type among Kurdish women, while the psychological abuse was reported to a lesser extent (mean </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">24.6167 and 13.2417 respectively)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. The levels of the study participant’s self-esteems were found to be </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">relatively high</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (mean score </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">17.64)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, while there was a positive correlation between self-esteem and psychological abuse detected (person correlation = 0.091) which was not statistically significant at the level of (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><em>P</em> = 0.326). </span></p> <p style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fff7f3; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Conclusion: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Study participants encountered physical domestic abuse more than other types of abuse; still the participant’s mean score for their self-esteem is relatively higher than the hypothetical one</span></p>}, number={3}, journal={Zanco Journal of Medical Sciences (Zanco J Med Sci)}, author={Ali, Sirwan K.}, year={2016}, month={Dec.}, pages={1411_1418} }