title: Risk factors for abusive relationships: a study of Vietnamese American immigrant women.
abstract: This study identifies risk factors for Vietnamese American women's abuse. Intensive interviews with 129 Vietnamese women immigrants in a northeastern metropolitan area provided data to examine risk factors for sexual, physical, and verbal abuse. Patriarchal gender arrangements in the family, arguments about fulfilling gender and family roles, and partner's threat that divorce would compromise the participant's immigration status put women at risk for each type of abuse. "Picture brides" were at heightened risk for sexual abuse. For women with limited resources, education and interventions within the ethnic immigrant community are critical to addressing wife abuse.
authors.affiliation: School of Crmininal Justice and Criminology, Michigan State University, USA.
authors.forename: Merry
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morash
authors.forename: Hoan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bui
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Kristy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Holtfreter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018585:Battered Women / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009511:New England / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016387:Women's Health