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According to Knox and Schacht (2016) Violence is defined as physical aggression with the purpose of controlling, intimidating, and subjugating another human being. I have recently encountered a story of a victim of domestic violence. My job requires me to build rapport with my customers and build life long relationships with them and one can only imagine the stories and encounter on a day-to-day bases. One of my customers seemed extremely shy at first but after getting her out of her comfort zone, she vented about her abusive husband which led her to move to the United States. She was born in a different country and she left her daughter behind with her abusive ex husband. She mentioned that her daughter is now 15 years old and her ex husband started treating her daughter the same way he was abusing her. She seemed extremely stress and the feeling I got after she mentioned her situation was indescribable. The frustration, the anger, and anxiety one must have in this situation is miraculous. Meeting this client led me to choose this topic.
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In a 2016 peer-reviewed journal conducted by Ozcan et al (2016), 34 previous studies were examined in order to review the prevalence of domestic violence against women which was determined through a meta-analysis and the risk factors were also determined by a systematic review. The results included that verbal violence was the highest prevalence followed by physical, emotional, economic, and sexual violence. It was also determined that 22 risk factors were most commonly examined in the studies, and these factors were categorized in three separate groups which include socio demographical characteristics, well-being related characteristics and marriage related characteristics.
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Another study I reviewed was conducted by Tsirigotis and Luscak (2016) who reviewed emotional intelligence of women who were experiencing domestic violence. The "Assessing Emotional Scale' by Schutte was used to study two groups of women: 40 women aged 23 through 47 years old using assistance of Crisis Intervention Centre due to experienced domestic violence and 140 women not experiencing domestic violence. This study identified that women experiencing domestic violence have significally lower scores on al INTE indicators than women who are not victims of domestic violence.
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In this YouTube video, "John" Quinones, an ABC host of the "What Would You do", demonstrates and abusive husband to his wife in public to see what peoples' reaction would be. Of course, these are actors and this video truly encourage yourself to put yourself in this uncomfortable situation and ask yourself "What would I do?".
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This short film introduces the perspective of a child in a domestic violence household and how the neighbors and friends view the violent father. I enjoyed this small clip because it demonstrates how a violent spouse may seem like two completely different people.
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To ease the tension from this topic, this video shows domestic violence introduced by Kevin Hart in a funny matter. Although domestic violence is a serious issue, comedian Kevin Hart was able to conduct a funny story behind it where he uses it in one of his stand-up comedy shows.
References
Knox, D. (2016). Choices in relationships: An introduction to marriage and the family (12th ed.). St. Paul: West Pub.
Ozcan, N. K., Gunaydin, S., & Citil, E. T. (2016). Domestic violence against women in Turkey: A systematic review and meta analysis. Archives Of Psychiatric Nursing, 30(5), 620-629. doi:10.1016/j.apnu.2016.04.013
Tsirigotis, K., & Luczak, J. (2016). Emotional intelligence of women who experience domestic violence. Psychiatric Quarterly, 87(1), 165-176. doi:10.1007/s11126-015-9368-0
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