Table 5.
Distribution of the types of violence according to various variables of women (annual income, type of family, educational level, occupation, childhood emotional abuse and/or neglect) in the province of Sivas, Turkey
| Types of violence (No., %) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | verbal (n = 163) | physical (n = 116) | total (n = 303) |
| Annual income (US $): | |||
| <5000 | 103 (63.2) | 73 (62.9) | 191 (63.0) |
| 5000-9999 | 50 (30.7) | 34 (29.3) | 90 (29.7) |
| ≥10000 | 10 (6.1) | 9 (7.8) | 22 (7.3) |
| Type of family: | |||
| nuclear | 107 (65.7) | 84 (72.4) | 206 (68.0) |
| large | 47 (28.8) | 26 (22.4) | 79 (26.1) |
| broken | 9 (5.5) | 6 (5.2) | 18 (5.9) |
| Educational level: | |||
| illiterate | 72 (44.2) | 36 (31.0) | 114 (37.6) |
| primary school | 66 (40.5) | 51 (44.0) | 126 (41.6) |
| high school | 24 (14.7) | 22 (19.0) | 54 (17.8) |
| university | 1 (0.6) | 7 (6.0) | 9 (3.0) |
| Occupation: | |||
| housewife | 117 (71.8) | 85 (73.3) | 223 (70.0) |
| civil servant | 11 (6.7) | 17 (14.6) | 28 (9.2) |
| worker | 35 (21.5) | 14 (12.1) | 52 (17.2) |
| Childhood emotional abuse and/or neglect of victims: | |||
| never | 46 (28.2) | 35 (30.2) | 88 (29.0) |
| sometimes | 89 (54.6) | 65 (56.0) | 165 (54.5) |
| frequently | 28 (17.2) | 16 (13.8) | 50 (16.5) |