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Comparison of Victims' Reports and Court Records of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators' Criminal Case Outcomes 23 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
Intimate partner violence (IPV) victims often report feeling confused and uninformed about court proceedings, including even about the final disposition of the case against their partner. This is prob...
Multiple Mediators of the Relationships Among Maternal Childhood Abuse, Intimate Partner Violence, and Offspring Psychopathology 23 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
The aim of the study was to examine whether maternal depression, mothers’ and fathers’ parenting, child physical punishment and negative life events (NLE) mediate the effect of maternal childhood abus...
Bullying Among Spanish Secondary Education Students: The Role of Gender Traits, Sexism, and Homophobia 23 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
The aim of the present study was to assess the combined influence of gender stereotypes, sexism, and homophobia on attitudes toward bullying and bullying behavior. A total of 1,500 Spanish adolescents...
Defining and Evaluating Perceptions of Victim Blame in Antigay Hate Crimes 23 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
Victimology research often hinges on attribution of blame toward victims despite a lack of conceptual agreement on the definition and measure of the construct. Drawing on established blame attribution...
Social Support Needs Identified by Mothers Affected by Intimate Partner Violence 23 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
In order to offer optimal supports and services for mothers affected by intimate partner violence (IPV), an understanding of these mothers’ perceptions of support needs, resources, barriers to support...
Substance Use, Aggression Perpetration, and Victimization: Temporal Co-occurrence in College Males and Females 23 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
Many studies have documented associations of substance use with aggression perpetration and aggression victimization; however, little is known about the co-occurrence of these problem behaviors within...
The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence, Substance Use, and HIV on Depressive Symptoms Among Abused Low-Income Urban Women 23 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
Intimate partner violence (IPV), substance use, and HIV are often co-occuring health problems affecting low-income urban women, and have been described as connected epidemics making up a "syndemic." R...
Traumatic Childhood Exposures in the Lives of Male Perpetrators of Female Intimate Partner Violence 23 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
Despite efforts to use behavior modification interventions for male perpetrators, intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a significant problem in some male–female relationships. Childhood exposure to...
Survivor Experience of a Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program: A Pilot Study 23 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
Addressing gaps in the research, the current study assesses the impact of a community-based child sexual abuse prevention program on known survivor knowledge/skills, disclosures, and subjective experi...
"It Helps Me Transform in My Life From the Past to the New": The Meaning of Resources for Former Child Soldiers 30 Jul 2013 | 10:44 am
Although former child soldiers face considerable challenges after their return from the warring faction to the war-affected society, the presence of resources enables many to maintain well-being in th...
