Intimate Partner Violence, Depressive Symptoms, and Immigration Status: Does Existing Advocacy Intervention Work on Abused Immigrant Women in the Chinese Community?

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2181-2202

  Wong, Janet Y H ^a   Tiwari, Agnes ^a   Fong, Daniel Y T ^a   Yuen, K H ^a   Humphreys, Janice ^b   Bullock, Linda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese immigrants; depressive symptoms; immigration status; intimate partner violence; social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879202426     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260512475311     Document Type: Article

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