Cultural factors in decision-making about child physical abuse: Identifying reporter characteristics influencing reporting tendencies

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1365-1379

  Ibanez, Elizabeth S ^a   Borrego Jr , Joaquin ^a   Pemberton, Joy R ^a   Terao, Sherri ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse reporting; Corporal punishment; Culture; Ethnic identity; Ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME; CHILD ABUSE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PUNISHMENT; VIGNETTE;

ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; PREVALENCE; PUNISHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33845343963     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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