Marital Sexual Violence in Turkey

Jansen, Henrica A. F. M.; Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu, İlknur; Kardam, Filiz; Ergöçmen, Banu

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190238360.003.0008

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“…The caregivers in our sample reported that their children were frequently exposed to the risk factors under examination: poverty, family violence, and armed conflict. In line with the earlier studies, a lower level of income (e.g., Jansen et al, 2009) and a higher level of armed conflict exposure (Catani et al, 2008) were associated with a higher level of family violence experience. Literature suggests that socioeconomic hardship may cause or exacerbate psychological distress within the family members (McLoyd et al, 1994) and result in harsh or unresponsive parenting (McLeod & Shanahan, 1993).…”

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confidence: 87%

“…These studies also indicated the co-occurrence of child maltreatment and physical abuse of women in the domestic setting. Physical abuse of women, on the other hand, was reported to be higher in the eastern part of Turkey, with the prevalence rates ranging from 47% to 53%, whereas the average rate of abuse in Turkey was 39%; the rate was higher among illiterate women (52%) and among women who had low welfare status (47%; Jansen, Yüksel, & Çağatay, 2009).…”

Section: The Context In the East Of Turkeymentioning

confidence: 98%

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Under poverty and conflict: Well-being of children living in the east of Turkey.

Kara¹,

Selçuk²

2020

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Children living in armed conflict zones are often exposed to political violence and other risk factors that may be caused or exacerbated by the conflict, such as poverty and family violence. If left untreated, these experiences may cause psychological problems throughout life. This study investigates the psychological well-being of children living in the low-intensity armed conflict zone in Turkey in relation to their adverse experiences. We collected data from 409 caregivers for their children (236 girls) aged 5.5 to 18 years (M = 11.50, SD = 3.65). Caregivers provided information regarding their children's emotional and behavioral problems (internalizing, externalizing and total problems, post-traumatic stress symptoms -PTSS), income, family violence and armed conflict experiences. Caregivers reported moderate levels of problems among children. The prevalence of subclinical/clinical (T ≥ 60) scores were 14.3% for internalizing, 12.6% for externalizing and 14% for total problems, and 7.9% for PTSS. Notably, almost all families resided in extreme poverty. The prevalence of family violence was 36%.Children were frequently exposed to conflict-related events. Hierarchical regressions showed that, after controlling for the role of demographic variables and other risk factors, income predicted total problem level ( = -.10), and family violence ('s = .17 to .26) and armed conflict ('s = .13 to .20) experiences predicted internalizing, externalizing and total problems, and PTSS levels. Our findings suggest that family violence and armed conflict pose a significant risk to children's psychological well-being and inform intervention strategies and policy decisions to promote welfare in such disadvantaged contexts.

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Section: The Context In the East Of Turkeymentioning

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Under poverty and conflict: Well-being of children living in the east of Turkey.

Kara¹,

Selçuk²

2020

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…White (1994) argues that overt violence might not be necessary in patriarchal families because the moral force of familial obligations may be sufficient. However, recent research in Turkey reveals a high prevalence of verbal, physical, emotional, and economic violence used as control strategies in most urban and rural families across socioeconomic strata (Akar, Aksakal, Demirel, Durukan, & Özkan, 2010; Altınay & Arat, 2009; Hortaçsu et al, 2003; Jansen et al, 2009). A systematic nationwide study of domestic violence in Turkey (Jansen et al, 2009) that included different age-groups, educational levels, socioeconomic conditions, and urban/rural residence (including the squatter settlements) utilized interviews based on the World Health Organization Multi Country study on women’s health and domestic violence and qualitative techniques such as focus groups and in-depth interviews.…”

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“…However, recent research in Turkey reveals a high prevalence of verbal, physical, emotional, and economic violence used as control strategies in most urban and rural families across socioeconomic strata (Akar, Aksakal, Demirel, Durukan, & Özkan, 2010; Altınay & Arat, 2009; Hortaçsu et al, 2003; Jansen et al, 2009). A systematic nationwide study of domestic violence in Turkey (Jansen et al, 2009) that included different age-groups, educational levels, socioeconomic conditions, and urban/rural residence (including the squatter settlements) utilized interviews based on the World Health Organization Multi Country study on women’s health and domestic violence and qualitative techniques such as focus groups and in-depth interviews. The study revealed that 39% of ever-married women had been physically abused by their husbands or partners, 44% had experienced emotional abuse, and 23% complained that their husbands prohibited them from working.…”

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Construction of Wife and Mother Identities in Women’s Talk of Intrafamily Violence in Saraycık-Turkey

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2014

International Perspectives in Psychology

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The present study explored how Turkish women in squatter communities on the fringes of an urban center positioned themselves in talk about family violence. Women's talk revealed their interpretative repertoires with respect to intrafamily violence and power relations, how they constructed identities as wives and mothers, and how they envisioned alternative, more egalitarian social relations. Three focus groups, each comprising 10 women from Saraycık, a poor neighborhood of Ankara, met for an hour once every week for a period of 9 weeks. Six questions about intrafamily violence provoked conversations about power relations and violence with their children and husbands. Transcriptions of these conversations were analyzed for manifest content, latent content, interpretative repertoires, and the functions served by the interpretative repertoires. On the basis of the categorization, I identified the complexity of women's positions, particularly with respect to their children as both the central meaning of life and children as getting on women's nerves. Many interpretations placed blame on a member of the family-the woman herself, her children, or husband. Some women envisioned an alternative future that would be achieved through education, employment, and the exercise of agency. The findings imply that the constructed wife and mother identities of Turkish women in the economically vulnerable urban squatter settlements include tension and complex experiences that are in flux as the women imagine other possibilities.

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Marital Sexual Violence in Turkey

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Under poverty and conflict: Well-being of children living in the east of Turkey.

Under poverty and conflict: Well-being of children living in the east of Turkey.

Construction of Wife and Mother Identities in Women’s Talk of Intrafamily Violence in Saraycık-Turkey

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