Risk factors for domestic violence: findings from a South African cross-sectional study.

By R. Jewkes, J. Levin, L. Penn-Kekana. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2002

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression in Battered Women: The Mediating Role of Learned Helplessness (2007, background): “…cultural attitudes, described in previous domestic violence studies (e.g. Cheung and Kwok 1996; Dion and Giordano 1990; Haj-Yahia 2000; Jewkes et al. 2002; Koenig et al. 2003; Yoshihama 2002), were selected to measure the construct: (1) I was taught that women must always obey men;…”
• Domestic violence against women: A field study in Turkey (2007, methodology): “The logistic regression analysis, which is a version of this model, has been employed recently in other studies on violence by various researchers, such as Romito et al. (2003) and Jewkes et al. (2002).”
• Women’s status and domestic violence in rural Bangladesh: Individual- and community-level effects (2003, background): “…United States (Caesar 1988; Hotaling and Sugarman 1986; Kalmuss 1984; Straus and Gelles 1990) and other developing countries (Ellsberg et al. 1999; Jewkes, Levin, and Penn-Kekana 2002; Martin et al. 2002) suggesting that witnessing family violence in childhood is associated with a greater…”
• Understanding the impact of a microfinance-based intervention on women's empowerment and the reduction of intimate partner violence in South Africa. (2007, background): “5%).(17) In addition, evidence of enhanced economic well-being and consistent improvements in all 9 indicators of women’s empowerment were documented among intervention participants, supporting”
• How does economic empowerment affect women's risk of intimate partner violence in low and middle income countries? A systematic review of published evidence (2009, background): “…may be that the achievement of secondary education or higher may give women greater options to not marry a man who she thinks may be violent or to leave a violent relationship, and to marry men with similar levels of education (Sen, 1999; Jewkes et al., 2002; Ahmed, 2005; Naved and Persson, 2005).”
• Alcohol Use and Sexual Risks for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic Review of Empirical Findings (2007, background): “Sexual assault is prevalent in southern Africa and sexual violence is related to alcohol use and HIV transmission risks (Dunkle et al., 2004; Jewkes, Levin, & Penn-Kekana, 2002 ).”