The Levels of Perceived Emotional Abuse among Pakistani Husbands and Wives

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Waqar Husain Sukoon

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Waqar Husain Sukoon
Department of Humanities, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

A B S T R A C T

Emotional abuse in marital or committed couples has been reported differently in literature. There has been a traditional theme that husbands are significantly more emotionally abusive toward their wives. This trend, however, has been changing due to the social participation and educational uplift of women. The current study intended to explore the prevalence and levels of emotional abuse among husbands and wives. The study involved 177 husbands and 139 wives and administered the Multidimensional Measure of Emotional Abuse to assess the levels of emotional abuse among the respondents. The findings revealed that husbands felt significantly more emotional abuse from wives.

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Research Article

Publication history

Received: Mon 22, Jun 2020
Accepted: Thu 30, Jul 2020
Published: Mon 17, Aug 2020

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© 2023 Waqar Husain Sukoon. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.GDT.2020.01.05