Risk factors for men's lifetime perpetration of physical violence against intimate partners: Results from the international men and gender equality Survey (IMAGES) in eight countries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Fleming, Paul J ^a,b   McCleary Sills, Jennifer ^c   Morton, Matthew ^c   Levtov, Ruti ^d   Heilman, Brian ^e   Barker, Gary ^d  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

^d Instituto Promundo an NGO based in Rio de Janeiro   (United States)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAZIL; CHILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CROATIA; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; FIGHTING; GENDER EQUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERNATIONAL MEN AND GENDER EQUALITY SURVEY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENTAL VIOLENCE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; RISK FACTOR; RWANDA; SELF REPORT; SEXISM; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE; VIOLENCE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ABUSE; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL CLASS; SPOUSE ABUSE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84928905826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118639     Document Type: Article

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