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An interactional perspective on the relationship of immigration to intimate partner violence in a representative sample of help-seeking women
- Authors:
- VATNAR Sloveig Karin Bo, BJORKLY Stal
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25(10), October 2010, pp.1815-1835.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The main aim of this research was to measure the possible impact of immigration on interactional aspects of intimate partner violence (IPV) among help-seeking women. Specifically it asked: whether there are differences between immigrants and ethnic Norwegian help-seeking by analysing the following variables: IPV categories (physical, psychological and sexual); IPV severity, frequency, duration, regularity, and predictability;) guilt and shame; partners’ ethnicity; and children being exposed to interparental IPV. The results were adjusted for sociodemographic variables. A representative sample of IPV help-seeking women (N = 157) recruited from family counselling, police, and shelters were interviewed. Analyses revealed that immigrant women had lower income, were less likely to use alcohol and had increased likelihood of having an immigrant partner. No differences were found concerning IPV severity, frequency, guilt, shame, or victimisation relating to different IPV categories. Immigrant women were better at predicting physical IPV but had an increased risk of physical injury related to sexual IPV. Children’s risk of being exposed to interparental IPV increased if parents were immigrants. The authors were surprised by the relatively few differences in IPV-related variables between the two groups. Psychosocial consequences of being an immigrant such as having a lower sociodemographic rank rather than IPV aspects were the main difference between ethnic Norwegian and immigrant help-seeking women.