Assessment of the role of religious tendency in domestic violence

Psychological Reports

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 675-684

  Pournaghash Tehrani, Said ^a   Ehsan, Hadi Bahrami ^a   Gholami, Somaye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; ISLAM; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPOUSE ABUSE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77449139406     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.105.3.675-684     Document Type: Article

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