Marital Abuse and Psychological Well-Being Among Women in the Southern Region of Jordan

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-273

  Hamdan Mansour, Ayman M ^a   Arabiat, Diana Hashem ^a   Sato, Tokiko ^b   Obaid, Batoul ^c   Imoto, Atsuko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Department of Statistics ^*  (Jordan)

Author keywords

Jordan; marital abuse; maternal child; psychiatric mental health; psychological well being; women; women's health

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; JORDAN; MARRIAGE; MENTAL STRESS; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ARABS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; JORDAN; MARRIAGE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 79958749338     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: 15527832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659611404424     Document Type: Article

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