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Journal of Family Violence
Published in: Journal of Family Violence 3/2009

01-04-2009 | Original Article

The Incidence and Impact of Family Violence on Mental Health Among South Korean Women: Results of a National Survey

Authors: Jaeyop Kim, Sookyung Park, Clifton R. Emery

Published in: Journal of Family Violence | Issue 3/2009

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Abstract

This representative national survey examined incidence of husband-to-wife violence in the past year, lifetime exposure to parental violence, and the relationships between victimization experiences of family violence and mental health among South Korean women (N = 1,079). The major findings were that incidence rate of husband-to-wife violence among Korean women was 29.5%, which was much higher than those of other nations, and that their experiences of physical violence by husbands in the last year and lifetime verbal abuse by parents had strong associations with the mental health of victims. The findings suggest that preventive intervention programs for male perpetrators as well as domestic violence victims with mental health problems and comprehensive interventions for Korean couples are urgently needed. In addition, parents should be educated about how to modify their children’s behavior without physical punishment or verbal abuse.
Footnotes
1
Parish et al. (2004) actually do not report 34%, but rather that 37% of men reported any hitting of women and 31% of women reported any hitting of women. However, as their sample by design contains exactly 50% women and 50% men, the overall sample rate must be the average of the two rates.
 
2
Cohen (1992) defines a large effects as a correlation of 0.50, a medium sized correlation as 0.30 and a small correlation as 0.10. Keeping in mind that the partial r-square values can be converted into partial correlation coefficients by taking the square root gives r = .31 for depression, r = .28 for stress, r = .26 for aggression, and r = .10 for self esteem.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Incidence and Impact of Family Violence on Mental Health Among South Korean Women: Results of a National Survey
Authors
Jaeyop Kim
Sookyung Park
Clifton R. Emery
Publication date
01-04-2009
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Family Violence / Issue 3/2009
Print ISSN: 0885-7482
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2851
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-008-9220-5

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