PSYCHOSOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST FEMALE DOMESTIC WORKERS IN HOSSANA TOWN, HADIYA ZONE, SOUTHERN NATIONS, NATIONALITIES AND PEOPLES REGION

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate the psychosocial consequences of violence against female domestic workers in Hossana town, Hadiya Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region. This paper employed descriptive survey research design because it helps to describe the feeling of FDWs violence in the study area. This study was also employed mixed research methods to achieve intended objectives in the study area. Among the respondents, 104 FDWs were participated in responding questionnaire and 8 respondents for an in-depth interview in the study area. Totally, 112 respondents have been participated in this study. The study used stratified random sampling techniques to select the study sites and to facilitate the sampling process and purposive sampling to select key informants for in-depth interviews. Data collected from the field were coded and entered into the computer for analysis using SPSS version-20Windows.The study was applied descriptive statistics like mean, weighted mean, standard deviation, and inferential statistics like, one way ANOVA Analysis. The finding of this study in terms of status of VAFDWs, most of the female domestic workers were illiterate, employed by parents and friends rather than brokers in the study area. The majority of FDWs was faced psychological violence rather than sexual and physical violence. In addition, majority of them faced factors contributing for VAFDWs in the study area. In other hand, most of them have been faced psychosocial consequences of violence like, feeling chronic headache, hopelessness in their mind, unsafe abortion and unwanted pregnancy in the study area. The study concluded that the majority of FDWs have been faced psychological violence rather than physical and sexual violence in the study area. In addition, this study it was concluded that the most common psychosocial consequences of violence observed in FDWs were feeling chronic headache, hopelessness, unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion in the study area. The study also recommended that, brokers, WAO, and LSA should have comprehensive recorded database system that creates networks of information about FDWs. Finally, governmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations in each kebele‟s consultative meeting and come up with well-informed action oriented employ-employer life skills intervention organizes for employers in each sub- cites to minimize psychosocial consequences of violence against female domestic workers.