Beliefs about wife beating among medical students from Turkey

Journal of Family Violence

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-133

  Haj Yahia, Muhammad M ^a   Uysal, Aynur ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Battered women; Domestic violence; Integrative theory; Students from Turkey; Students of medicine; Wife beating

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749042722     PISSN: 08857482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10896-007-9134-7     Document Type: Article

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