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VIOLENCIA DE GÉNERO E INMIGRACIÓN: PERFIL DIFERENCIAL DE HOMBRES MALTRATADORES NACIONALES E INMIGRANTES
1 Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, España
2 PSIMAE Instituto de Psicología Jurídica y Forense, Pamplona, España
*Correspondencia: Javier Fernández-Montalvo, Dpto. de Psicología y Pedagogía, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Campus de Arrosadía, 31006 Pamplona (España).
E-mail: fernandez.montalvo@unavarra.es
Abstract
This paper describes the demography, nature of gender violence and psycho-pathological characteristics of 448 men who have sought help after committing an act of domestic violence. Furthermore, a comparison is made of all the variables studied between Spanish nationals (n= 221) and nationals from other countries (n= 227). The results reveal the existence of numerous statistically significant diffe-rences between both groups in terms of the socio-demographic and abuse varia-bles. However, from a psychopathological point of view the differences found are not clinically significant. Migrant male abusers are younger, with more children in common with the victim, with a slightly higher level of education and with a lon-ger history of mental illness than Spanish abusers. Furthermore, migrant abusers have more irrational thoughts about women and the use of violence, and they have experienced childhood abuse more often than their Spanish counterparts.
Keywords
- gender violence
- abusers
- psychopathology
- migration
