ABSTRACT

This study has the purpose of investigating students’ attitudes forward this negative tendency,
comprising 70 college students in Vietnam, comparing different data on both genders. The
study was compiled online via google form including 16 questions on demographics, abusive
behaviors, attitudes, sentiments, reasons why domestic violence happened, and the enduring
level of this phenomenon. As a result, the majority of college students (35,7%) never
experienced domestic abuse, and roughly 32,9% of them only occasionally experience this
problem.
 INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, domestic violence has become more and more popular in several countries,
especially Vietnam. Domestic violence is a pattern of actions intended to acquire or keep
control over a member in any kind of relationship including both marriage and family ties
(United Nations, 2020). In particular, not only adults but also children have to suffer from this
detrimental phenomenon due to many reasons be it financial problems, internal relationships,
self-defense, alcoholism, etc. In the sequel, most of the victims have to endure both mental and
physical torture, which brings them obsessional experiences that affect their whole life. Hence,
there have been a variety of investigations, and reports from scientists, and other professionals
in all over the world to figure out the solutions to this problem.
According to G Hornor - Journal of Pediatric Health Care, (2005), despite the fact that
domestic violence makes no distinction between the sexes, women are more likely to sustain
bodily harm or psychological effects. Besides that, A Farmer, J Tiefenthaler - Review of
Social Economy, 1997 - Taylor & Francis claimed that women's incomes and other sources of
financial assistance (such as family, welfare, shelters, divorce settlements, etc.) will reduce the
amount of violence in intact families since they raise the threat level of the female party. MP
Matud - Journal of Adolescent Health (2007) also stated that between 10% and 69% of women
in 48 population-based studies from around the world reported experiencing physical abuse at
some point in their life from an intimate partner, and for many of these women, the physical
abuse was a part of a long-standing pattern of abusive conduct.
Although these previous studies bring a lot of information regarding women as the major
victims of domestic abuse. It is still necessary to investigate how students of all genders suffer
from this phenomenon.
 METHODOLOGY
The research was conducted on 70 college students in Vietnam about the topic of “How
Vietnamese students suffer from domestic abuse”, which relied on the level of domestic
violence, general attitudes, and common behaviors in a family. It was managed through the
diverse questionnaires in English from 24th to 25th September 2022 by google form.
In this online study, the number of female attendants is twice as much as male attendants,
approximately 44 people and 21 people respectively, contrary to the data on other genders,
which is just 5 people. There are 53 students from the age of 16 to 18, 14 students aged 14 to
22, and almost 3 students from 12 to 15 years old in the overall report, who were completely
voluntary. The total questionnaire consists of 15 questions, divided into three types of
questions. First of all, demographic questions are given to statistics the gender, age, and
nationality of the respondents while questions 4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,14 and 15 are nine questions
about various perspectives of attendants in different types of domestic abuse. The remaining
sectors of this survey examine the student’s attitudes toward this negative tendency.
In brief, all the questions with particular data are presented in the form of proportions and
detailed graphs for analysis steps depending on certain information from respondents.
 RESULTS

Gender rate affected by domestic violence

LGBTQ+ Male Female

The pie chart illustrates the proportion of all genders who are influenced by domestic abuse. It
can be seen clearly that approximately 57.10% of females tended to suffer from a family
assault compared to 10% of males. Meanwhile, the percentages of LGBTQ+ took the 2nd
highest position, which made up 33% people.

The severe rate of domestic violence

70.00%

60.00%

50.00%

40.00%

30.00%

20.00%

10.00%

0.00%
0 1 2 3 4 5

The bar chart indicates the acute level of domestic abuse. Looking at the information in more
detail, over half of the respondents who participated in this survey assumed that domestic
violence is considered the most dangerous phenomenon while about 20% of them believe that
this trend was less severe. Besides, there is approximately 10% of attendants votes that
domestic abuse is normal, which is as twice the data on people who assume that this
phenomenon is not a problem. The figure for levels 1 and 2 is similar, which are 2.9% of
people respectively.
 The frequency of domestic violence

Always

Usually

Sometime

Rarely

Never

0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% 30.00% 35.00% 40.00%

The given chart demonstrates the incident of domestic abuse on several levels. It is clearly
seen that the proportion of never is higher than that of rarely, which made up 35.7% and
32.9% respectively. Meanwhile, the regularity of sometimes ranked third, at 27.1% contrary to
the usual rate, which is about 5%. It is very discernible that there is no figure in always sector.

The experiences of physical assault

Pulling your hair Hitting, slapping or puching causing injury

Hitting your head or body against wall None of the above
Slapping but not doing an injury
The given pie chart gives information about many types of physical abuse that many people
have suffered from domestic violence. Firstly, it can be seen clearly that the proportion of
hitting, slapping, or punching causing injury is equivalent to that of people who don’t be
affected by physical assault, approximately 34% and 56% respectively. In contrast, the
percentage of pulling hair made up about 7% compared to similar data on the two other
sectors.
 DISCUSSION
The research aimed to investigate the student’s perspectives towards domestic violence trend.
The original hypothesis of this issue is that domestic abuse caused various drawbacks in
several mental and physical sectors, especially stresses and depression on student’s mind. As a
result, this theory is coming true at all time.
To specify, the survey containing 70 samples, depicts that although the majority of
respondents rarely suffer from domestic abuse contrary to the tendency of about 30% of
students who have been influenced by it, it cannot be denied that domestic violence victims
have to experience a lot of negative impacts such as physical assaults and emotional pains.
Initially, the main reason for this is that there are a lot of opposing viewpoints between
children and parents due to the generation gap, misunderstanding, a great ego, and social
impacts which cause many severe disputes in most Vietnamese family.
Another factor behind this phenomenon is that most Vietnamese students have to be put under
pressure of getting high marks at school and compared with their counterparts. This leads to
the outbreak of contradiction between family members since parents always impose their
ambition on children in order to receive admiration and reputation from society. Besides, there
are still many properties such as disruption, oppression and exploitation, and romantic
relationships, which have a bad effect on the development of student’s psychology and body.
Nevertheless, this study is imperfect due to the fact that there are just 70 attendants who
participated in the interview, in which some are not honest enough to make an extensive
prediction. To summarize, the findings revealed a variety of causes of domestic violence and
how Vietnamese troubled by this problem.
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 APPENDIX
1. Nickname (Optional):
2. Your gender is:
 Female
 Male
 Others
3. How old are you?
 12-15 years old
 16-18 years old
 19-22 years old
4. What kind of family do you live?
 Nuclear family
 Extended family
 Single-parent family
5. Can you rate the severity of domestic violence?
1 2 3 4 5
6. Which gender do you think is more affected by domestic violence?
 Male
 Female
 LGBTQ+
7. According to you, which is the worse type of domestic violence?
 Physical abuse
 Sexual abuse
 Emotional abuse
 Verbal abuse
 Spiritual abuse
8. Is it possible for abusers to change?
 Yes
 No
 Maybe
9. What types of abuse have you/do you suffer in your family?
 Physical abuse
 Sexual abuse
 Emotional abuse
 Verbal abuse
 Spiritual abuse
 None of the above
10. How often does domestic violence happen to you?
 Never
 Rarely
 Sometime
 Usually
 Always
11. Why did you suffer from domestic violence?
  Got the bad score at school
 Disruptive
 Not for any reasons
 Had the opposing viewpoints
 Had the romantic relationship
 Oppression and exploitation of labor
 You do not know
 None of the above
12. Have you ever tried defending yourself from physical assault?
 Yes
 Maybe
 Hard for me
13. What sorts of physical assault have you experienced?
 Pulling your hair
 Hitting, slapping or puching causing injury
 Hitting your head or body against wall
 None of the above
14. Have you feel depression because of domestic violence?
 Yes
 No
 Maybe
15. Level of stress do you suffer?
0 1 2 3 4 5