Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Family violence."”.
-
Perpetrators’ perspectives on family violence: What happens, and why, during a family violence event?
Family violence (FV) is a significant social issue in many countries around the world, and New Zealand is no exception. In recent years, significant advances have been made in the development of FV theories and in our empirical understanding of risk factors implicated in these theories. However, …
-
Understanding Samoan discourses of Family Violence
Although there is much information about family violence in New Zealand, little is known about how this phenomenon is understood and experienced by the various ethnic populations that make up this multicultural country. Using qualitative methodology, this research focused on Samoans who live in New …
-
Family Violence and Divorce: Effects on Marriage Expectations.
<p>Family violence and divorce can have influential effects on marital expectations. The present study analyzes the effects of gender, family violence, and divorce on marital expectations. Participants were 293 students enrolled in an introductory psychology course at a southeastern university. The …
-
Killing ostriches: Young women, family violence and youth work
… sought to investigate the experience of violence in the home of a small group of young women living in the northern suburbs of Perth. Seven young women between the ages of 17-26 took part in the study. Five of these young women claimed to have experienced violence in their family of …
-
Perceptions and Understanding of Family Violence Among Japanese Canadians
… in Edmonton and Calgary perceive and understand family violence. A qualitative descriptive methodology was utilized as the research method, and data was collected from ten Japanese Canadians through individual and focus group formats. Findings indicate that participants appeared to have a bounded …
-
Risk assessment for family violence aggressors in Aotearoa New Zealand
In recent decades Family Violence (FV) researchers have developed risk assessment instruments to enable practitioners to identify the people who are most likely to commit FV in the future, and the families who are most likely to experience ongoing harm. Indeed, risk assessments have become a …
-
Family Violence as Predictive of Attitudes Toward Women in Boys
Theory and research concerning family violence suggests that there is a link between such variables as exposure to family violence as a child, sex-role attitudes and patriarchal attitudes toward women, and partner abuse in adult males. The purpose of this study was to determine the nature of the …
-
A Theoretical Synthesis of Telecommuting and Incidence of Family Violence
The rapid advancement of computer and telecommunications technology has made working in the home a practicality. Dubbed ?telecommuting,? this manner of work describes a circumstance where the employee, through the use of some form of telecommunications device (most often a computer with some form …
-
A Social Phenomenological Understanding of Family Violence: The Case of Korea
This dissertation focuses on the problem of family violence in contemporary Korea. I argue that the family violence in Korea is inextricably bound to two issues: the problem of a husband's adultery, and conflict with the family-in-law. This is a radically different phenomena when compared to cases …
-
Gendered pathways: family violence as a primary pathway into homelessness for women
… interviews and form themes which include family violence as a primary pathway for women, with more traditional pathways such as substance abuse and loss of income for men. Lack of services for women was a recurring issue, while feelings of embarrassment and/or shame were consistent with …
-
Understanding family violence assessment practices of pediatric emergency department nurses and physicians
… of routine assessment for intimate partner violence and other forms of family violence remains low among emergency department healthcare providers. The aim of this study was to use a theory-driven approach to understand the reasons why pediatric emergency department providers do not …
-
Centrality measures as method to identify key stakeholders in family violence councils
The Family Violence Councils (FVC) are collaborative settings that bring together various organizations involved in the system’s response to family violence (e.g., domestic violence shelter programs; law enforcement; courts). FVCs aim to increase coordination among member organizations. Social …
-
Parenting : risk and protective factors for mothers with a history of exposure to family violence.
… to assess the influence of intimate partner violence and early childhood abuse on women’s current parenting, and to identify other factors which aid or interrupt positive parenting and how these factors might affect their children’s’ behaviour. Method: Women from the greater Cape Town region …
-
The Influence of Organizational Characteristics and Psychological Empowerment on Secondary Traumatic Stress of Social Workers Working With Family Violence or Sexual Assualt Survivors
… variables, such as hours providing services to family violence or sexual assault clients and quality of clinical supervision, predicted secondary traumatic stress or psychological empowerment of social workers. The study did not find that psychological empowerment mediated the relationship …
-
Sibling Aggression: Associations with parenting styles, social dominance behaviour and co-occurring forms of family aggression
… that has explored the experience of this form of family violence. The thesis made an original contribution to knowledge by exploring the impact of multiple forms of family violence on the use of aggression between siblings, asking victims and/or perpetrators of these aggressive behaviours about …
-
Growing up in times of change: Adolescents in post-conflict northern Uganda. A long-term intergenerational study on the effect of family violence on adolescent psychopathological development and future expectations after war
… 2007; Cicchetti & Rogosch, 2002). In particular, family violence and the emergence of mental illnesses such as depression and internalizing symptoms represent fundamental challenges for a successful transition into adulthood (Giedd, Keshavan, & Paus, 2008; Sedlak et al., 2010). Across societies, …
Page 1 of 7