News media are in a position to project certain perspectives on domestic violence while marginalizing others, which has implications for public understanding and policy development. This study applies discourse analysis to articles on domestic violence in two U.K. national daily newspapers published in 2001-2002 and 2011-2012 to evaluate evidence of change over a 10-year time span. The research...

Abstract Domestic violence against women is a serious social problem that requires male’s perspective understanding to be prevented. This study aimed understand the perceptions of adult men, with higher education degree or students, on this type violence. Using Bandura’s learning theory, qualitative was developed 13 men. The data were collected using remote semi-structured interviews. analytica...

Domestic violence poses a serious threat to the health of women and children, and to the family as a whole. Nevertheless, responses to this type of violence, particularly in developing countries, are still vague, isolated, and limited to initiatives by the government and by nonprofit agencies. Domestic violence is a type of gender-based violence that includes several forms of physical, sexual ,...

BACKGROUND Violence against women in families is the most common form of violence against them. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of domestic violence and its effects on married women of Ilam. METHODS In this descriptive-sectional research, 334 married women referred to medical health centers in Ilam were selected to participate using a random sampling method. After ob...

BACKGROUND Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world. Few studies have identified the risk factors of Indonesian women for domestic violence. Such research will be useful for the development of prevention programs aiming at reducing domestic violence. Our study examines associations between physical and sexual violence among rural Javanese Indonesian women and sociodemographic fa...

objective: the purpose of this study was to detect the role of early maladaptive schemas in a variety of domestic violence cases against women with an experience of violence. methods: in this study, a correlational design was used. the sample consisted of 197 women living in tehran, who had experienced various levels of violence. the instruments consisted of young schema questionnaire-short for...