Factors influencing attitudes to violence against women

Trauma, Violence, and Abuse

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 125-142

  Flood, Michael ^a   Pease, Bob ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Domestic violence; Perceptions of domestic violence; Sexual assault

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES; SPOUSE ABUSE; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 66049102944     PISSN: 15248380     EISSN: 15528324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524838009334131     Document Type: Review

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