Journal of Social Sciences 6 (1): 8-13, 2010 ISSN 1549-3652 © 2010 Science Publications Corresponding Author: Ali Edalati, Department of Family Ecology, Faculty of Human Ecology, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Tel: 0060122793206 8 Family Values and Female’s Psychological Aggression Ali Edalati, Ma’rof Redzuan, Mariani Mansor and Mansor Abu Talib Department of Family Ecology, Faculty of Human Ecology, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Abstract: Problem statement: The main objective of the current study is to determine the relationship between women’s perceptions toward Iranian family values with psychological aggression. Approach: All of the randomly selected 337 wives who suffered from level of psychological aggression were included in this study. Straus questionnaire (CTS) is the method used to measure psychological aggression. It shows a negative relationship between family values (inequality in affairs and inequality in regulation) and psychological aggression. It has also shown that there is no relationship between values of inequality in access job and inequality in political in relation to psychological aggression. Social learning theory is used in order to gain a thorough understanding of the issue. The multivariate regression analysis is utilized to answer the last objective. Results: The analysis showed that among the four predictor variables, two of which variables such as inequality in affairs and inequality in regulation were found to be significant in explaining the observed variation in psychological aggression (DV). Conclusion: Generally, the final model has explained 4% of total observed variance in psychological aggression. Key words: Women aggression, family values, female aggression, psychological aggression INTRODUCTION The Iranian society is experiencing changes from a traditional society to a modern status. As a result, the Iranian families, especially the women of these families, are always been traditionally facing more problems compared to other family members. In other words, modern society values and the current views put the woman in bad conditions. Women are not expected by the society to become uncontrollable, angry and hard as far as they are considered to be the symbol of kindness, peace and benevolence. Accordingly, this unexpected change of behaviour among women may be the result of the neglect and ignorance of their rights from early birth onwards. Thus, it is worth to investigate scholastically these differences which will affect the family in particular and the society in general. Social learning theory clearly recognizes the fact that people can learn behaviour without directly experiencing it and in absence of any rewards (new values and norms). However, rewards are very important in motivating people to later perform the behaviour. In the current research, the equality of situation in the family are also been considered. On the other hand, the roles played by factors- gender-bias and variables-across families are almost obvious worldwide. In Iran, the structure of family changes and is under the processes of structuring and restructuring continuously. Therefore, any attitude towards family should benefit from the new generation’s attitude toward the concept of family as well as the society values. This ensures a permanent and sustainable development of value-system with respect to individuals’ rights regardless of their gender. It sounds wise to assume that a man who lives in a patriarchal society will not apprehend to this problem. For instance, according to the Iranian constitution and religion (consist of both rules of civic law and rules of Shariat), a wife cannot leave the house without her husband’s permission. The insurance for a woman’s death in an accident is half of a man’s based on the stated policy. After the divorce, children’s protection is always given to the man. More importantly, the man has the right to divorce his wife. The laws and rules do not give such rights to the women. Women’s testimony in the court is not equal to men in terms of the numbers. That is, two women are needed to testify in the court if in case they are going to be considered as witnesses. The girl cannot marry without her father’s permission (Kar, 2000a). Based on the current practice, it is therefore an absolute need to analyze women’s problems from different points of view such as family values, economical, social, political and judicial perspectives.