title: Domestic violence against single, never-married women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
abstract: This study examines the association between decision-making power, with other background variables, and domestic violence against single, never-married women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Secondary analysis using data from a 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics domestic violence survey revealed that decision-making power and age were significant predictors of physical and psychological abuse. Relation to household head, refugee status, education, employment, and locality were not significant; region was only significant for psychological abuse. Further studies are needed to understand what factors allow single, never-married women to exercise decision-making power in the household and its association with domestic violence.
authors: University of Padova, Padova, Italy. shireen122@gmail.com
authors: Shireen
authors: S
authors: Assaf
authors: Stephanie
authors: S
authors: Chaban
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D018912:Arabs; D018595:Colonialism; D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000523:psychology; D004493:Education; D004651:Employment; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D008875:Middle Aged; D008877:Middle East; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012036:Refugees; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Palestinian single women; autonomy; decision-making power; determinants of violence