The impact of father-to-mother aggression on the structure and content of adolescents' perceptions of themselves and their parents

Violence Against Women

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1036-1055

  Winstok, Zeev ^a   Eisikovits, Zvi ^a,b   Karnieli Miller, Orit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Fac of Social Welf/Hlth Studies   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adolescent self image; Child witnessing; Familial image; Interparental violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243099337     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801204267379     Document Type: Article

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