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Mayorga, Magaly Noblega – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
This article shows risk and protective factors for both physical and emotional intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. The study was carried out in a shanty town of Lima, Peru, which has a strong community organization. One hundred ninety-two women between 25 and 59 years old (M = 34.09, SD = 6.5) were interviewed; 44.3% had secondary…
Descriptors: Risk, Assertiveness, Foreign Countries, Family Violence
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Madlock, Paul E.; Westerman, David – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The current study sought to specifically examine the affect of teasing by way of technology (cyber-teasing) and the importance of the redressive component of a tease. A triangulated approach was used here to gain better insight into the concept of "hurtful" cyber-teasing between romantic partners. A pretheoretical model was developed…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Aggression, Violence, Models
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Chambers, Jemma C.; Ward, Tony; Eccleston, Lynne; Brown, Mark – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
Research on offending behavior rehabilitation suggests that offenders would gain the maximum benefit from programs that reflect the individual needs of different types of offender. Multivariate theories of offending behavior are thus required to inform individualized rehabilitation. The aim of the current study was to construct a multivariate…
Descriptors: Violence, Correctional Rehabilitation, Criminals, Rehabilitation Programs
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de Zoysa, Piyanjali; Newcombe, Peter A.; Rajapakse, Lalini – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The objective of this study was to explore the existence and, if so, the nature of the association between parental use of psychological aggression and psychological maladjustment in a 12-year-old Sri Lankan school population. A stratified random sampling technique was used to select 1,226 children from Colombo district schools. Three instruments,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Adjustment (to Environment), Foreign Countries, Child Rearing
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Parrott, Dominic J.; Zeichner, Amos – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effect of psychopathy on antigay aggression. Participants were 84 heterosexual men who competed in an aggression paradigm in which electric shocks were received from and administered to a randomly determined fictitious opponent (heterosexual male, gay male) during a competitive reaction time…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Reaction Time, Males, Aggression