The social problem of spousal abuse and modeling the solution of family resilience

Spouse abuse is an important social issue and the most common form of violence in the family, therefore, finding a solution that improves the resilience of the family system in violent situations by preventing the creation and increase of this crisis leads to ontinuity of the family and survival of society and ulturalcohesion social. Therefore, the aim of this study was to model family resilience as a solution to the social problem of spousal abuse, based on the investigation of two factors underlying personal authority in the family system and ineffective communication beliefs. This was a descriptive-correlational study based on structural equation modeling in which 250 female victims of spousal abuse visiting the social assistance departments of tehran city police stations in 1400 were selected using a targeted method. For data collection, Sixby's family resilience questionnaire(2005), personal authority in the family system of Williamson, Malone, and Barry(1984) and Idelson-Wabstein's communication beliefs(1981) were used. Hypothetical model was analyzed using structural equation modeling method and spss18 and Amos23 software. The findings showed that there is a direct and significant relationship between the components of personal authority(β=0.276, p=0.001) and ineffective communication beliefs (β=-0.255, p=0.000) with family resilience. The improvement indices supported the research model with the collected data. The structural model also has a good fit and showed significant fit indices. It is concluded that strengthening the personal authority and recognizing the ineffective communication beliefs, due to the increase in the level of awareness and empowerment of women who are victims of spousal abuse, increases the resilience of the family and the degree of prevention of this social harm and adaptation of family systemto crises and ultimately increases social welfare will be effective.