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Straiton, Melanie L.; Hjelmeland, Heidi; Grimholt, Tine K.; Dieserud, Gudrun – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2013
A total of thirty-two women admitted to a general hospital for medical treatment after self-harming completed measures of conventional positive and negative masculinity and femininity. Comparisons were made with two control groups with no self-harm history; 33 women receiving psychiatric outpatient treatment and a nonclinical sample of 206 women.…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Gender Differences, Self Destructive Behavior, Masculinity
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Alsaker, Kjersti; Kristoffersen, Kjell; Moen, Bente E.; Baste, Valborg – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Women (n = 87) at women's shelters in Norway, a country of high welfare and gender equality, reported a multitude of severe threats and actual acts of physical, sexual and psychological violence. An individual threatening to kill his partner represented a significant increased risk for experiencing serious acts of violence, especially when the…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Foreign Countries, Psychology
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Bo Vatnar, Solveig Karin; Bjorkly, Stal – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This article reports a study of the possible impact of immigration on interactional aspects of intimate partner violence (IPV) among help-seeking women. Are there differences concerning (a) IPV categories, (b) IPV severity, frequency, duration, regularity, and predictability, (c) guilt and shame, (d) partners' ethnicity, and (e) children being…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Females, Foreign Countries, Immigration