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A Study on the Prevalence and Nature of Ragging Practices in Selected Educational Institutions in India
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Rao, Mohan; Sonpar, Shobna; Sen, Amit; Seshadri, Shekhar P.; Agarwal, Harsh; Padalia, Divya – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2018
Ragging has claimed hundreds of innocent lives and has ruined the careers of thousands of students. A total of 717 cases of ragging were reported in the English print media alone across the country from January 2007 to September 2013. However, the media reports tend to focus on extreme cases and do not reveal the true extent of ragging. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Victims, Incidence
Domestic Violence in India: Insights from the 2005-2006 National Family Health Survey
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Kimuna, Sitawa R.; Djamba, Yanyi K.; Ciciurkaite, Gabriele; Cherukuri, Suvarna – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2013
This article assesses the prevalence and risk factors of domestic violence in India. The study uses the 2005-2006 India National Family Health Survey-III (NFHS-III) and focuses on the 69,484 ever-married women ages 15 to 49 from all regions, who were administered the domestic violence module. The results show that 31% of respondents experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, Family Violence, Incidence
Examining the Determinants of Sexual Violence among Young, Married Women in Southern India
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Chibber, Karuna S.; Krupp, Karl; Padian, Nancy; Madhivanan, Purnima – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The prevalence of sexual violence is increasingly being studied in India. Yet the determinants of sexual violence, irrespective of physical violence, remain largely unexplored. Here the authors identify the determinants of sexual violence, and additionally, explore how the presence of physical violence modifies these determinants. A…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Drinking, Foreign Countries
Association between Early Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in India: A Focus on Youth from Bihar and Rajasthan
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Speizer, Ilene S.; Pearson, Erin – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and early marriage is explored using the 2005-2006 India National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3). The NFHS-3 collected data from a representative sample of women and men in India with a large enough sample size to have a representative sample at the state level. The focus is on youth from…
Descriptors: Females, Marriage, Foreign Countries, National Surveys
Prevalence of PTSD Symptoms and Depression and Level of Coping among the Victims of the Kashmir Conflict
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Yaswi, Arooj; Haque, Amber – Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2008
This study examined the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depression, and coping mechanisms among the adult civilian population in Indian Kashmir. The Everstine Trauma Response Index-Adapted, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Coping Resources Inventory were used to assess the three domains. Independent-sample t…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Coping, Depression (Psychology), Incidence
Detection of Intrafamilial Child Abuse: Children at Intake at a Children's Observation Home in India.
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Segal, Uma A.; Ashtekar, Aruna – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1994
Interviews with 515 children brought to a home for neglected, destitute, and delinquent children in Bombay (India) resulted in self-reports of familial physical violence from approximately 50% of the sample, with two-thirds of those reporting abusive violence. Over 60% of the children who had run away from home cited violence by parents as the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Children