The extent to which domestic violence is related to the residential environment of the families of the governmental high school students of privateand governmental schools in Bethlehem district.

Abstract

This study aims at identifying the extent to which domestic violence is

related to the residential environment of the families of the students of private

and governmental schools in Bethlehem district. The quantitative methodology

with its descriptive and inferential parts was applied for its suitability for this

type of studies. The study sample was randomly taken following the stratified

way, in terms of variable type of school (governmental, private) . The

sample consisted of (1174) students from (16) Schools in Bethlehem district,

distributed between the villages and cities of Bethlehem; it reached the rate

of (% 18.8) of the research community. A questionnaire was designed and

prepared for the purpose of the study and for collecting additional data. The

students were reported –through the questionnaire- to the aspects of domestic

violence and to demographic details about their families. The results indicate

that the domestic violence is related to the economic level of the residential

neighborhood of the family and to the type of housing the family inhabit. The

domestic violence is related to housing in the neighborhoods of low economic

level as well as neighborhoods of high economic level. The results also show

that the domestic violence is more related to housing in a brick house or in a

tent than it is in a villa or an apartment. The assembly that the family lives in

is not related to domestic violence because of the movements of villagers to

the cities, reducing the gap between the village and the city