Research on Risk Factors and Help-seeking for Intimate Partner Violence among Women in China’s Rural and Urban Area

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10.2991/assehr.k.220401.069How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Intimate partner violence; Women; Urban; Rural; Risk factors

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects 30% of females around China and it has brought increasing public attention in the past several years. A growing amount of research about IPV prevalence and its risk factors has been done in different regions of China such as Hongkong, Hunan, Henan, and Anhui. However, the research has shown contradicting results regarding IPV prevalence and its risk factors between urban and rural areas. Thus, this article compares the risk factors addressed between the urban and rural areas in China, suggesting that there are common risk factors including alcohol and drug abuse, relationship influences, and cultural and societal beliefs. Some demographic factors such as age and social economic status are differential factors that influence urban and rural women in distinct ways in terms of experiencing IPV. Moreover, barriers to help-seeking for IPV survivors such as cultural beliefs, societal unawareness, and flawed legal system are discussed. Finally, suggestions for future research and policy related to women’s experience of IPV in disparate geographic areas have been provided.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jingwei Yang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - Research on Risk Factors and Help-seeking for Intimate Partner Violence among Women in China’s Rural and Urban Area
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 349
EP  - 354
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.069
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.069
ID  - Yang2022
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