Thematic analysis of violence of married men and women against their spouses

In the present era, the family has undergone extensive changes affected by social changes and deformations. The Iranian family has not been dismissed by these changes so that its structure, especially the relationships between people within the family has undergone fundamental changes, so that they have faced with various issues and problems such as family violence .The purpose of the present study is to understand the meaning, causes and consequences of family violence experienced by spouses among the people who referred to the court of the Isfahan. The data were collected on the basis of a qualitative research using deep interviews and analyzed with the help of "thematic analysis". Finally, the results were categorized in six main themes, "profiteering and preference for personal benefit to common interests", "heterogeneous thought and behavior and unsimilarity and understanding", "the pressures of children and spouse's family resulted from the negative role of spouse", "imposition of equality and mutual action", "imposed structures, reinforcing and violence in society" and "continuous cycle of violence. The understanding the meaning of family violence is different in men and women in proportion to experienced instances. The family violence is interwoven with a variety of reasons in its shaping .However, the violence can be considered as any kind of harm done by spouses, which causes the creation of problem in their relationships and loss of kindness, and calm and respect in family. Among the consequences of family violence is the type of continuous violence cycle based on the taking of revenge and repay strategies. This cycle starts with the act of violence of one party and continues with the opposite of violence of the other, such that it may start from moral violence and turn into psychological, physical, sexual, social and economic violence. Thus, the most important consequence of family violence will be the continuation of violence in a consecutive cycle and with different issues from the individual to family and social domains.