@article {55ca8de8430641c1b3f8e9084c826f93,
	title = {Beliefs about wife beating among medical students from Turkey},
	journal = {Journal of Family Violence},
	volume = {23},
	number = {2},
	year = {2008},
	month = {feb},
	pages = {119{\textendash}133},
	publisher = {Springer New York},
	abstract = {The paper presents a study conducted among 173 Turkish medical students, which examined their beliefs about wife beating through a self-administered questionnaire. An integrative conceptual framework was tested as the basis for explaining the students{\textquoteright} beliefs. The results revealed that between 4.5 and 38.7\% of the participants justified wife beating, between 3.5 and 5.3\% of them tended to believe that battered women benefit from beating, and between 4.7 and 28.5\% of them tended to believe that battered women are responsible for their beating. In addition, between 68.4 and 90.6\% of the students expressed willingness to help battered women, and although nearly half of them perceived the violent husbands as responsible for their behavior, only about one-quarter of them supported punishing violent husbands. The results also indicate that significant amounts of the variance in students{\textquoteright} beliefs about wife beating can be attributed to their patriarchal ideology toward family life and to their exposure to family violence during childhood and adolescence. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the results for future research, theory development, and training of medical students.},
	keywords = {Battered women, domestic violence, Integrative theory, Students from Turkey, Students of medicine, wife beating},
	issn = {0885-7482},
	doi = {10.1007/s10896-007-9134-7},
	author = {Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M. and Aynur Uysal}
}
