Sexual relationship power, intimate partner violence and dyadic adjustment during pregnancy and affecting factors.
Melek Balçık Çolak, Bihter Akın, Yasemin Erkal Aksoy
PMID 40341909WHAT IT FOUND
Pregnant women with higher education, employment, and moderate income reported better relationship quality and sexual power.
Women whose husbands drank alcohol or who experienced physical violence reported significantly worse relationship adjustment and lower sexual power.
Key findings
01Higher education and employment were associated with better dyadic adjustment and sexual relationship power, while husbands' alcohol use and physical violence were associated with worse outcomes.
025.7% of participants reported experiencing physical violence from their spouse during pregnancy.
03Positive correlations were found between sexual relationship power and dyadic adjustment, and negative correlations between attitudes toward intimate partner violence and dyadic adjustment.
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What it does not show
The cross-sectional design prevents establishing cause and effect. Recruitment via social media and online forms introduces selection bias, excluding women without internet access or digital literacy. Self-reported data on sensitive topics like violence may be subject to social desirability bias. The study population was limited to healthy pregnancies in Turkey, which may limit generalizability to other cultural or clinical contexts.
Declared interests
The study was financed in part by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - Brasil (CNPq).
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume that employment or higher education protects against intimate partner violence; while these factors correlated with better relationship adjustment scores, they did not eliminate the risk, and 5.7% of the total sample reported physical violence regardless of these demographic factors.