Violence against the Wife and its Relationship to Forgiveness on a Sample of Adult Wives

The current thesis aimed at identifying the relation between violence against the wife and forgiveness and its dimensions which predict forgiveness on a sample of adult wives. Also, it aimed at disclosing the personality dynamics of the wives subjected to violence and the unconscious factors behind the husbands' violence against their wives. The thesis relied on the descriptive method and the clinical method and was applied among a psychometric sample of (208) wives of postgraduate students in educational diploma at Faculty of Education, Zagazig university between the ages (40 - 21) years (adulthood stage) with the average age (26.2) years and a deviation of (3.919) years. The sample of the clinical study consisted of two (2) females of extreme cases chosen from the psychometric sample according to their degrees on the scale of violence against the wife (a lower and greater cases in the marital violence). The psychometric study tools applied on them are: the violence against the wife scale (by the researcher, 2022), the forgiveness scale (by the researcher, 2022). The clinical study tools are: the personal interview form (by Hassan Abd Al-Moaty,1998) and the Thematic Apperception Test (T.A.T)(by Murray,Murgan,1935).The psychometric study brought out that: -there is a statistically significant negative correlation between the psychological violence and neglect degrees and the degrees of forgiveness dimensions with the husband and with situations and the total degree of forgiveness. There is a statistically significant negative correlation between the total degrees of violence against the wife and the degrees of forgiveness with the husband and the total degrees of forgiveness of adult wives. We can predict the total degree of forgiveness through the second-dimension degrees (psychological violence and neglect) of the adult wives. The clinical study revealed that the personality dynamics of the wives experienced violence characterize by the prevalence of the negative images in their psychological building. The results also indicated a group of unconscious factors behind the husbands' violence against their wives which are: the social upbringing, the abnormal styles of parenting representing in spoiling, excessive protection, leniency in raising in addition to the harsh childhood experiences of violence, the low educational level of the husband, the poor economic conditions of the family, the wife's jealousy, the lack of cultural and educational parity between the spouses, the husband's feeling of inferiority, the weakness of his personality in front of his wife lead to violence against the wife, along with the wife's negativity and continuous tolerance towards the violence committed by the husband. The study recommends holding seminars and counseling and treatment programs for the violent husband to solve his problems, treat his psychological disorders that he suffers from which result in committing violence against his wife and make sure that husbands don't practice violence against their wives through the media, clarifying the bad effects caused by violence on wives and children, activating the role of social institution in protecting the wife from the violent behavior of some husbands and encouraging husband to improve and develop self-compassion, forgiveness and marital satisfaction to enhance their marital relation.