Resumen

GOMES, Holga Cristina da Rocha  y  COSTA, Nazaré. Violence against women: an empirical research about descriptive rules common in Western society. Acta comport. [online]. 2014, vol.22, n.1, pp. 89-100. ISSN 0188-8145.

The study's aim was to investigate the participants' agreement with descriptive rules common in Western society that relate to violence against women from questionnaires administered to 252 college students and non-university individuals of both sexes. The questionnaire (ad hoc) contained 25 statements that should be answered on a scale, as well as if the participant knew or not knew someone who agreed with what was described in each of them, with the possibility of the participant to make a comment (not mandatory) in each affirmative. To analyze the data was used the t Student and r Pearson. It was found that non-university men had higher agreement with statements related to the rules that legitimize the patriarchal family model, female culpability for aggression and jealous emotional behavior relationship between and violence. The education variable was statistically significant for 20 affirmative, while the gender variable was significant statistically for 17 of the 25 statements in the questionnaire. It was also observed that there was a negative correlation between education level and agreement or disagreement with the statements of the questionnaires. It was also observed that there was a negative correlation between education level and agreement or disagreement with the statements of the questionnaires. Furthermore, in general, most participants said they knew someone who agrees with affirmative proposals. The data suggest that the level of education is predominant in relation to gender regarding the agreement or not with the rules that somehow relate to the maintenance of violence against the women.

Palabras clave : Violence against the women; Jealousy; Rules; Behavior Analysis; Level of schooling.

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