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A middle-class woman, with primary education and unemployed, is the profile of Spanish women victims of gender violence, according to one of the conclusions of the doctoral thesis held at the University of Murcia (UMU) by Delia López Fernández -Thin.
The study notes that as to the circumstances of the violence, 57.8 percent had been separated from the aggressor for more than six months, and 75.6 percent were financially independent.
In more than half of the analyzed population the abuse originated in the courtship and the same was both physical and psychological.
72.4 percent of battered women filed a complaint, although a high percentage of them subsequently withdrew it.
Almost 81 percent of those affected were forced to leave the family home.
The doctoral thesis, which has also studied this situation in terms of foreign women, emphasizes that the South American women are the most affected by it.
To carry out this research, the author analyzed a sample of 344 women who received psychological, legal or social assistance in specialized care centers in the Region of Murcia.
The doctoral thesis, which was directed by UMU professor Eduardo Osuna Carrillo de Albornoz, has obtained the qualification of outstanding cum laude.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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