[en] This study presents a brief description of the problem has been investigated: the extent to which cultural variables mediate the abusive behavior, it has addressed the problem of ill-treatment of women, which creates serious consequences for their health and welfare and cultural dimensions. Culture of Honor The concept is of great importance as a variable that can explain or influence the violence against women is justified and Culture of honor would use violence to defend the honor and dominate the relationship. The cultural dimensions are associated with ecological variables, economic and demographic, as well as macro-indicators, in the socioeconomic, human development index (HDI) combines 3 basic components: longevity, education and standard of living, the HDI is the best measure of development. Companies with less developed, less education, lower life expectancy and lower income, less urbanized and social gaps between rich and poor, shared values hierarchical and authoritarian. This study involved 100 women victims of violence, from different localities of Galicia, who completed a questionnaire that has medidola culture of honor, sexism, la violencia, cultural dimensions and el nivel studies. The methodology has sido fundamentalmente descriptive. El material that has been used, has side UN questionnaire, to which women responded individually, which contained the following scales: semi-structured interview scale Culture of Honor (Lopez-Zafra, 2007a), Role Ideology Scale (Moya and Expósito, 2000), International Survey VSM 94 (Hofstede, 1994) and Scale of Individualism /Collectivism Horizontal and. Vertical (Singelis and Triandis, 1995). The procedure is a cross sectional study was applied only once, anonymous and without giving up the survey. The observation of the phenomenon that is considered the cause would be the independent variables: power distance, masculinity-femininity, individualism-collectivism, tolerance to uncertainty; orientation long/short time sexism and legal aspects of the culture of honor and the variables dependents are: physical abuse and psychological abuse. It has been the analysis of data: correction was made in the questionnaire of the 100 participants and entered all items in a worksheet in Excel. Data were transformed with the statistical analysis software and SPSS data processing 16.0 and analyzed the data. Thus, we have studied the circumstances of abuse suffered and depending on the magnitude of the variables we examined the relationships between the various circumstances of abuse on women in the sample. It has sought to find a significant relationship between abuse, the cultural, sexism and perceptions about the culture of honor, in the study population. Culture is the most important predictor of aggressive behavior

[gl] Neste estudo preséntase unha breve descrición do problema que se investigou: ata que punto as variables culturais mediatizan o comportamento de malos tratos; nel tratouse o problema dos malos tratos ás mulleres, que xera gravísimas consecuencias para a súa saúde e o seu benestar e as dimensións culturais. O concepto Cultura da Honra ten gran importancia como variable que pode explicar ou incidir na violencia contra as mulleres; esta Cultura da honra xustificaría e empregaría a violencia como forma de defender a honra e dominar a relación. As dimensións culturais, están asociadas a variables ecolóxicas, económicas e sociodemográficas, así como a indicadores macrosociais; nas variables socioeconómicas, o índice de desenvolvemento humano (IDH), combina 3 compoñentes básicos: lonxevidade, educación e nivel de vida; o IDH, é a mellor medida de desenvolvemento. As sociedades con menor desenvolvemento económico, menor educación, menor esperanza de vida e menores ingresos, menos urbanizadas e con grandes diferenzas sociais entre ricos e pobres, comparten valores máis xerárquicos e autoritarios. Neste estudo participaron 100 mulleres, vítimas de violencia de xénero, procedentes de distintas localidades de Galicia, que completaron un cuestionario no que se mediu a cultura da honra, o sexismo, a violencia, as dimensións culturais e o nivel de estudos. A metodoloxía foi fundamentalmente descritiva. O material que se empregou, foi un cuestionario, ao cal, as mulleres respondían de forma individual, que contiña as seguintes escalas: Entrevista Semiestructurada, Escala da Cultura da Honra (Lòpez-Zafra, 2007a), Escala de Ideoloxía do Rol (Moya e Expósito, 2000), Cuestionario Internacional VSM-94 (Hofstede, 1994) e Escala de Individualismo/Colectivismo Horizontal e Vertical (Singelis e Triandis, 1995). O procedemento, é un estudo transversal, aplicouse nunha soa ocasión, anónimo e sín dar seguimento á enquisa. A observación do fenómeno que se considera a causa, serían as variables independentes: distancia do poder, masculinidade-feminidade; individualismo-colectivismo; tolerancia á incertidumbre; orientación a longo/corto prazo; sexismo e aspectos legais da Cultura da honra, e as variables dependentes serían: maltrato físico e maltrato psicolóxico. Fíxose a análise dos datos: fíxose a corrección do cuestionario das 100 participantes e introducíronse todos os ítems nunha folla de cálculo de Excell. Transformáronse os datos co software de análise estatística e de tratamento de datos SPSS. 16.0 e analizáronse os datos. Asi, estudáronse as circunstancias de malos tratos sufridas e en función da magnitude das variables analizáronse as relacións entre as diferentes circunstancias de malos tratos nas mulleres da mostra. Buscouse atopar unha relación significativa entre os malos tratos, as dimensións culturais, o sexismo e a percepción que se ten da cultura da honra, na poboación obxecto de estudo. A cultura é o predictor máis importante da conduta agresiva.