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- Title
Domestic Violence Against Women of Japanese Descent in Los Angeles Two Methods of Estimating Prevalence.
- Authors
Yoshihama, Mieko
- Abstract
Using a more inclusive, culturally responsive measure, this population-based study of women of Japanese descent contrasts two methods of estimating prevalence of domestic violence. Eighty percent of respondents reported experiencing a male partner's violence during their lifetimes--a conventional estimation. A new method took into account the respondent's perceptions about the partner's acts--whether she considered her partner's behavior abusive and placed it within the context of an abusive relationship--and yielded the lifetime prevalence of 61%. Attention to culturally based manifestations of domestic violence and the respondent's perceptions provide additional dimensions of data grounded in women's subjective experiences.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; LOS Angeles (Calif.); UNITED States; JAPANESE American women; DOMESTIC violence; ABUSED women; WOMEN; ATTITUDE (Psychology); ABUSE of women
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 1999, Vol 5, Issue 8, p869
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10778019922181536