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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"Physical Violence"”.
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Intimate Partner Physical Violence Against Women in Saudi Arabian Primary Healthcare Clinics
<p>Intimate partner violence against women (IPPVAW) is a serious public health concern. The Ecological Model provides a model to study several factors associated with IPPVAW. In Saudi Arabia, studies addressing IPPVAW are limited and do not cover the various aspects of the problem. The purpose of …
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Physical violence and psychological abuse among siblings: a theoretical and empirical analysis
… feminist perspectives to explain teenage sibling physical violence and psychological abuse. Using regression analysis and data from 796 young adults, considerable support is found for all three theoretical approaches and suggests an integrated model best predicts acts of violence and abuse among …
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Intimate Partner Violence and Its Influential Factors: Men Who Turn to Physical Violence
Abstract Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive problem in Canada. The rates of men who turn to physical IPV towards their female partners are higher than for any other couple relationship. Most studies to date focus on victim/survivor experiences and do not explore IPV by understanding the …
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Prevalence and determinants of physical violence among ever-partnered women in South Africa : a multilevel analysis
… concern; globally women have been exposed to physical violence. As a result, it has also been related to femicide, particularly in South Africa. The micro (individual), mezzo (family), and macro (community) level factors all play a significant effect in IPV exposure on a multilayer basis. The …
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"Code of the Hallway": Examining the Contextual Effects of School Subculture on Physical Violence, Sexual Offending, and Nonviolent Delinquency
… school, whether its influences are specific to physical violence or more general, and whether the influences are gendered. The data used comes from a NIDA funded project and consists of 3,976 students who provided data in at least one of the fours waves. The students were embedded within a total …
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Observance of Parental Violence and Its Association With Responses of College Students to an Analog Dating Task
The transgenerational hypothesis of family violence predicts that violent parents serve as models for their children. These children may have learned through observation or by direct experience that the use of physical violence is an appropriate way to interact in relationships. To investigate the …
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Intimate Partner Violence As a Risk Factor for PTSD in Female Survivors of Domestic Violence: A Meta-Analysis
… the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptomatology in female survivors of domestic violence. The first meta-analysis investigated the relationship between physical violence and PTSD symptomatology while the second meta-analysis …
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“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author
… disputes featuring duels or the threat of physical violence, a pattern indicating a connection between authorship and dueling. This study explicitly examines this connection, particularly as it relates to social acceptance, the gentrification of authorship, and the business of publishing. …
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What makes control coercive?
… Johnson’s (2008) types of intimate partner violence. Prior research has involved examining coercive control in conjunction with physical violence, rather than on its own. Thus, it remains unknown whether and how coercive control can be disentangled from physical violence and its effects. …
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The Impact of Anger Management Training on Students of Skills for Managing Anger
… programs are discussed as are causes of violence in school age children. The company that produces SMA suggests that its program can reduce verbal and physical violence and increase the use anger management strategies. SMA was observed from the teacher training throughout the 12 session …
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Violence for a Peaceful End: Rhetorical Violence, Fundamentalist Eschatology, and the Interpretive Tradition of Revelation
… fundamentalist groups leads to rhetorical violence, including feelings of marginalization and societal targeting, and creation of insider/outsider dynamics with those outside the tradition. While rhetorical violence—language and behaviors that harm others and that occur so regularly that …
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A formative evaluation of the Silence The Violence programme : a school-based violence prevention programme
… of a formative evaluation of the Silence The Violence (STV) programme, a school-based violence prevention initiative. The programme is implemented by an organisation known as Khulisa Services, which has service points in all nine provinces of South Africa. The main objective of the STV …
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Childhood Exposure to Interparental Conflict: Memory Biases and Intergenerational Patterns of Conflict in Romantic Relationships
… a diverse student body. The study found that violence occurs with alarming frequency in the dating relationships of university students. Analyses also revealed an intergenerational pattern of violence in which individuals from high conflict homes were more likely to use violent conflict …
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Assessing how adult attachment and gender role attitudes impact intimate partner violence
<p>Intimate partner violence (IPV) describes the physical, sexual or psychological violence and abuse by a former partner or spouse. This study explored the relationship between adult attachment style and gender role attitudes, and level of physical violence and coercive control present in an …
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Queen Fatty
… in the face of enormous challenges, including physical violence, sexual abuse, and hunger. The novel also explores the emergence of a unique Hong Kong Chinese identity that many in the region are fighting to defend today.</p>
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Hættur í starfi félagsráðgjafa: Ógnanir og ofbeldi
… social workers in Iceland experience threats and violence in their job. A quantitative methodology was used in the form of a questionnaire that was submitted electronically to all members in the Social Work Association in Iceland (model of the questionnaire was obtained from a study from …
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Red power in the age of Nixon : an analysis of the official memory of Native protest.
… government organizations put down protests using physical violence and sometimes lethal force, and repeatedly ignored well-researched and widely supported legislative proposals of Native social leaders. This thesis explores the rhetorical tools that federal officials used to support the official …
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Beneath the Body's Disguise: Poems
… section which introduces the themes – death, physical violence, pornography, and hope. David Mura, Ai, and Adrienne Rich, among others, are poets credited with both inspiration and particular craft elements and styles of writing included in the project. The final sections of original poems are …
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"Moving like a boxer" : a study of Cape Town's boxing youth
… history, precarity, embodiment, structural violence and physical violence. In the final analysis, the thesis argues for the clear benefit of having community boxing gyms in South African informal settlements or other typically violent locales. Research was conducted at two boxing gyms in the …
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Women's experiences and coping strategies towards domestic violence: Analysis of cases from female survivors in Windhoek, Namibia
The domestic violence against women, especially from male counterparts, has escalated in Namibia to the extent that women suffer physical violence and even murder. Thus, the Government of the Republic of Namibia established the Gender Based Violence Protection Unit (GBVPU) to provide services to …
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