Are individual and community acceptance and witnessing of intimate partner violence related to its occurrence? Multilevel structural equation model.

BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is a serious and widespread problem worldwide. Much of the research on IPVAW focused on individual-level factors and attention has been paid to the contextual factors. The aim of this study was to develop and test a model of individual- and...

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Main Authors: Olalekan A Uthman, Tahereh Moradi, Stephen Lawoko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3237419?pdf=render