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Domestic Violence , based on typical legal definition , encompasses psychological , sexual , physical , and verbal actions of an individual against his or her partner (Pournaghash-Tehrani and Feizabadi , 2007 The prevalence of these kinds of abuses has propelled the civic group to clamor from the government for the victims ' legal protection and preservation of rights . Said Pournaghash-Tehrani and Zahra Feizabadi as members of Department of Psychology and Institute of Psychology respectively in the University of Tehran

in Iran are both expected to be highly adept in the field of applied psychology . Their study entitled Comparing Demographic Characteristics of Male Victims of Domestic Violence ' is one of the spirit-awakening researches in terms of domestic violence . It draws out attention on the issue of domestic violence where the typical scenario females are abused while males are the perpetrators

The stereotype of domestic violence has treated it as entirely women 's issue for a long time (Pournaghash-Tehrani and Feizabadi , 2007 . Thus most countries have a definite law concerning violence against women However , through the efforts of civil groups and social scientists gender symmetry movement on domestic violence has made a notion that males are victims of domestic violence at least as often as women Meanwhile , the work of Pournaghash-Tehrani and Feizabadi , as acknowledged by the Asian Network for Scientific Information in 2007 was published in the fourteenth of the seventh volume of Journal of Applied Sciences . Their study revealed that male victims of...