Relationship among domestic violence and parental stress in Mexican population

Abstract

This research comes as a by-product of the research agreement UNT-UAEMEX5 aiming to explain the relationship between intimate Domestic Violence and Parental Stress in Mexican women through the application of scales, Tactics Conflict Scale and Parental Stress Scale to 319 mothers or female caregivers of children within the first three years of primary public education in the State of Mexico. It was found positively correlated Domestic Violence and Parental Stress significantly between factors of each scale (p < 0.01 y p < 0.00). The 89.34% of the participants reported having experienced at least one episode of Dating Violence and moderately low scores of Parental Stress.