title: Assessment of the role of religious tendency in domestic violence.
abstract: The present study assessed relationships between religiosity and the perpetration of violence by husbands and wives toward one another in an Iranian context. 180 Iranian couples living in Iran were administered the Islamic Religious Tendency and Domestic Violence questionnaires. Patterns of relationship between aspects of religious tendency and expressed violence were similar in men and women. There was a negative correlation between Religiosity, Religious Valuation, and self-reported Domestic Violence of husbands and wives. Religious Disorganization was positively correlated with expressed Domestic Violence of husbands and wives. Finally, the results of a regression analysis revealed that only Religiosity and Religious Disorganization predicted self-reported Domestic Violence of husbands and wives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Jalal Al Ahmad, Nasim Street, P.O. Box 14155-6456, Tehran, Iran. spournaghash@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Said
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pournaghash-Tehrani
authors.forename: Hadi Bahrami
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Ehsan
authors.forename: Somaye
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gholami
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D007514:Islam; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D014505:Urban Population