The Study of the Interventional Role of the Type of Power Relations in Influencing of Status Inconsistency on Wife Abuse

Abstract

The present study tries to investigate the rate of wife abuse among married women in metropolitan of Tabriz and some factors affecting it. The research method has been performed with a quantitative approach and it has been tried to investigate the intended purpose among 275 subjects of the selected sample in city of Tabriz (Iran) by multi-stage sampling and using a questionnaire. The results indicate the existence of wife abuse in the studied population. Also, among the most important and influencing variables, the variable of power relations has had the greatest impact on the rate of wife abuse; in addition, the variable of the status inconsistency, by affectability of the variable of power relations, has had a significant effect on the dependent variable, such that the used variables could explain 27% of the variance of changes in wife abuse variable.

Keywords: Wife abuse, Status inconsistency, Type of power relations, Married women.