Relationships between family background in upbringing, experience of violence, and authority relationship, and violence behavior among Thai Muslim married couples in Pattani Province

Abstract

          The objectives of this research was to study relationships between family background in upbringing, experience of violence, and authority relationship, and violence behavior among Thai Muslim married couples in Pattani Province. The data were collected from 1,536 subjects and analyzed with the R program to calculate frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson product moment correlation coefficient.

          It was found that strict upbringing, undisciplined upbringing, severe punishment in childhood, witnessing their parents quarreling in childhood, violent behaviors in their childhood, the inferior status of women, and patriarchy held the positive relations to violence behavior among Thai Muslim married couples in Pattani Province statistically significant at 0.001 level. Whereas the democratic upbringing was not related to violence behavior among Thai Muslim married couples in Pattani Province.