The Socio-Economic Factors Determining on Domestic Violence Against Woman in Iranian Society: A Secondary Study

Spouse abuse, especially female abuse, is one of the most common social harm in many societies, which causes many psychological and social consequences for the wife. Therefore, the study aimed to determine the socio-economic factors affecting the domestic violence against women rate (female abuse (in 31 provinces of the country in the period 2012 and 2018.

In the present study, the effect of 17 socio-economic explanatory variables on the domestic violence against women rate was investigated using the Bayesian model averaging (BMA) method in the context of a panel data regression using R software.

In among the 8 economic variables, only the male unemployment rate with a probability of 1 with a coefficient of 0.7976 has a too strong effect on the rate of domestic violence against women. Also, the urbanization variable with a probability of presence of 0.9777 with a coefficient of -1.6305 and the rate of abortion therapy with a probability of 0.8803 and with a coefficient of 0.1931 were recognized as the second and third strongest, respectively. In contrast, other social and economic variables were not significant to the extent of this violence.

Based on the results of this study, the unemployment rate of men and the rate of abortion therapy increase domestic violence against women and in contrast, with the increase in urbanization, the violence decreases in Iran.