Marital violence among university teachers

The goal of the current research is to identify marital violence among university teachers, and to achieve the research objectives, the researchers built a scale (marital violence) according to the theory and definition of (Bowen, 2007). The apparent validity and construct validity were verified, and reliability was verified by the retest method, as the reliability rate reached (0).,98) While the reliability rate of the Cronbach method reached (0.89), after which the scale was applied to the basic research sample consisting of (400) male and female teachers from the University of Diyala, the research sample was chosen by a random stratified method with a proportional distribution. To treat the study data statistically, the researchers used the statistical program (SPSS). The results revealed that the members of the research sample had low marital violence due to them being an aware and cultured class and usually enjoying a high level of education. Likewise, there were no statistically significant differences. In marital violence according to the variable (males, females), and in light of the results, the current research came out with a number of recommendations and proposals.