Cultural and Immigration-Related Variables in Family Violence

家庭暴力中与文化和移民相关的变量

• 批准号: 9905253
• 负责人: Merry Morash
• 金额: $ 17.55万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-08-15 至 2004-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9905253&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cultural; Immigration; Related; Variables; Family

The research is designed to increase understanding of forms of wife abuse among Vietnamese Americans, describe differences in the situations and characteristics of abused women who are and are not in contact with victim services, and contribute to the development of theory explaining how culture- and immigration-related variation affect behavior. Dimensions of wife abuse will be measured and described for 50 Vietnamese-American wives in contact with the Task Force and known to be abused, and 70 Vietnamese-American wives who are not in contact. It is estimated that this last group will include 20 women subject to, and 50 women not subject to, abuse. Independent variables include: values/norms promoting husband's domination, conflict over expectations about gender roles and other aspects of family life, immigration (reasons for immigration, sequencing of husband's and wife's move, each person's legal status), and circumstances related to immigration (discrimination, employment and occupational status, proximity of extended family, wife's support network). Qualitative data on the pattern, nature, and context of the abuse will also be used to provide description of why the abuse occurred, and to support findings from the quantitative analysis and/or better specify the causative model. The study also will test and develop theory to explain wife's desired resolution (e.g., obtaining help, influencing the husband to stop, divorce) and events leading to alternative resolutions (including continued abuse) after one year. Influences hypothesized to be related to desired and actual resolutions include:1. wife's perceptions of immigration law and the outcome of criminal justice involvement;2. wife's perception of the consequences of divorce;3. need for and effects of wife moving from the ethnic community to the mainstream to escape abuse;4. wife's economic power;5. wife's experience in seeking help.

该研究旨在增进对越南裔美国人虐待妻子形式的了解，描述接触和未接触受害者服务的受虐妇女的情况和特征的差异，并有助于发展解释文化和移民相关差异如何影响行为的理论。将对 50 名与工作组接触并已知受到虐待的越南裔美国妻子和 70 名未接触过的越南裔美国妻子的妻子虐待程度进行测量和描述。据估计，最后一组将包括 20 名遭受虐待的妇女和 50 名未遭受虐待的妇女。 自变量包括：促进丈夫统治的价值观/规范、对性别角色和家庭生活其他方面的期望的冲突、移民（移民原因、丈夫和妻子搬家的顺序、每个人的法律地位）以及与移民有关的情况（歧视、就业和职业地位、大家庭的亲近程度、妻子的支持网络）。有关虐待的模式、性质和背景的定性数据也将用于提供虐待发生原因的描述，并支持定量分析的结果和/或更好地指定因果模型。该研究还将测试和发展理论来解释妻子想要的解决方案（例如，获得帮助、影响丈夫停止、离婚）以及一年后导致替代解决方案的事件（包括继续虐待）。假设与期望和实际分辨率相关的影响包括：1．妻子对移民法的看法以及刑事司法介入的结果；2．妻子对离婚后果的看法；3．妻子从少数族裔社区走向主流以避免虐待的必要性和影响；4．妻子的经济实力；5．妻子寻求帮助的经历。