摘要：Key Word : wife, depression, domestic violence, husbandABSTRACT :This study aims to determine how the image of domestic violence experiencedby the subject, why domestic violence occurs in families subject, how imagesdepression in wives who experienced domestic violence and also how theoccurrence of depression in wives who experienced domestic violence. Acts ofviolence committed by a husband against his wife in the household referred to asdomestic violence (domestic violence). Domestic violence is defined byHasbianto (1996) as a form of physical abuse or emotional or psychological,which is a way of controlling their partners in domestic life. Depression has ameaning different. Depression can be a symptom ( "I feel sad"), signs ("expression on his face seemed glum"), or disorders which can bediagnosed. Diagnosis of depression is put as a disturbance that lasted longenough symptoms and signs specific to substantially disrupt the fairness of theattitudes and actions of a person or a cause of profound sadness, and can alsoboth (According to Greist & Jefferson, 1987 ). Impact of violence perpetrated onthe wife's husband is about psychological and mental wife will make the wifesuffered stress and depression which, of course, correlated to physical illnessessuch as headaches, asthma, abdominal pain, and others. Stress and depressioncan lead to the possibility of suicide or killing husbands who commit violence(cicik, 1999). Subjects in this study is a wife who experienced domestic violence(domestic violence), having children that became a benchmark why the subjectstill survive in his household. Subjects numbered one person and one othersignificant person. In this study researchers used interview techniques usinggeneral guidelines where this type of interview requires the interviewer to makethe framework and outline the points in question in the interviewprocess. Formulation of the main points of the interview was conducted beforedone. The main points are formulated not need to be asked insequence. Similarly, the use and choice of words for the interview in a particularcase need not be done previously. Directive interview only contains an outlineof instructions on the process and content of the interview to keep the items tobe covered entirely planned. Researchers are also using systematic observationtechniques, where the main feature is the systematic observation of theframework that includes the factors that have been regulated category, it is oftencalled the observation or observation structured. The last technique theresearchers use a measure of depression in which this measure can explain theextent to which the degree of depression a person is classified as mild, moderate,severe or very severe, people use the gauge (instrument) known as the HamiltonRating Scale for Depression ( HRS-D), to use this tool used direct interviewtechniques with the subject by the overall results and discussion of researchobtained in this case study it can be concluded that domestic violenceexperienced by the subject began when the subject had their first child, herhusband's habits like gaming and also did not come home at mala day, subjectswho felt left alone with her children who still small, it occurred to date. Quarrelsand conflicts among them often happened so often in violence is also be thesubject of her husband. Type of violance happened from physical violence,psychological or emotional, sexual, neglect in the household, and economicviolence. Factor for violence is the patriarchal cultural factors, the wronginterpretation of religious teachings and influence of role models is also habithusband. Type of violence that may be subject to subject and felt sad at notappreciated by her husband. Depression based on the subjects included in thecategory of neurotic depression, which usually depression that happens after asad event, but more severe than usual. People who suffer from depressionneuritic feel restless, anxious, and depressed at the same time. And also basedon the gauge Scare for Hamilton Depression Rating (HRS-D), the researchersconducted interviews with subject can directly in that subjects included in thecategory of severe depression.
