AWhen screams go unheard: covert violence, women victims, and social denial
Zahra Saedi, Fatemeh Norouzi Aliabad, Elham Taheri, Elham Azmoude · 2026
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Description
Zahra Saedi and colleagues map covert violence against women, a hidden pattern of abuse that wears down a victim's sense of reality, freedom, and worth. Unlike open aggression, it works through gaslighting, small invalidations, coercive control, and money manipulation, often escaping notice.
A scoping review under the Arksey and O'Malley method and PRISMA-ScR rules searched five databases for English studies. It charts how covert violence shows up, what harm it does to mind and social life, and how institutions and culture deny it. Services get a map for naming abuse that victims struggle to prove.
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| CREATOR | Zahra Saedi, Fatemeh Norouzi Aliabad, Elham Taheri, Elham Azmoude |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |