Putting context into a cultural perspective: Examining arab and jewish adolescents' judgments and reasoning about spousal retribution

Violence Against Women

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 584-602

  Pitner, Ronald O ^a   Astor, Ron Avi ^b   Benbenishty, Rami ^c   Haj Yahia, Muhammad M ^d   Zeira, Anat ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

adolescents; culture; retribution; spousal violence; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARAB; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MALE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPOUSE; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARABS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL VALUES; SPOUSE ABUSE; SPOUSES; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS;

EID: 79956093630     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801211407447     Document Type: Article

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