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Vulnerability and Resilience After Partner Loss Through Divorce and Bereavement: Contributions of the LIVES ‘Intimate partner loss study’
Critical life events, such as partner loss, in the second half of life pose a significant threat to well-being. Divorce and bereavement have negative...
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Rainfall and intimate partner violence
This paper explores the extent to which rainfall variability influences women’s exposure to intimate partner violence in 37 develo** countries...
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First Partner Choice in a Native Minority: The Role of Own and Parental Ethnolinguistic Affiliation
Despite increasing diversity within many societies, ethnically endogamous unions remain common. In contexts where one ethnic minority has lived...
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Minority Stressors and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Among Lesbian and Gay Individuals
Sexual minority individuals experience more intimate partner violence (IPV) than those in heterosexual relationships. Issues of mistrust, stigma, and...
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Intimate Partner Violence and Women Offenders
Although historically conceptualized as a “gendered” crime with men as the abusers and women as the abused, the number of women arrested for intimate...
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Migration, Partner Selection, and Fertility in Germany: How Many Children are Born in Mixed Unions?
For the German context, we investigate whether the number of children ever born differs between mixed unions (exogamous unions between natives and...
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Looking for Lockdown Love Online: A Literature Review on Virtual Partner Selection During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Poor outcomes have been associated with the absence of a romantic partner, yet the COVID-19 pandemic triggered unprecedented restrictions on people’s...
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Intimate Partner Violence in (Un)-Romantic Relations: Its Spatial Dimensions in the Indian Context
Partner abuse is a significant contributor to total crimes in India. Atrocities against women in conjugal relations form the core of intimate partner...
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Protracted Chains of Violence: How Chronic Conflict and Displacement Structure Intimate Partner Violence at the Thailand-Myanmar Border
Conflict and displacement exacerbate violence against women, including intimate partner violence (IPV). Considering the rising prevalence and...
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Prevalence of intimate partner violence in pregnant women during the COVID-19 epidemic in Qazvin-Iran 2021
IntroductionIntimate partner violence (IPV) in pregnant women is considered one of the most important types of violence, which can include physical,...
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Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Soviet Countries
Violence against women (VAW) is a pressing global problem that violates women’s rights and negatively affects their health and well-being. While VAW...
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Risk of Femicide and Quality of Life Assessment of Women Victims of Intimate Partner Violence in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
BackgroundViolence against women is a public priority issue for epidemiological and public health sciences. Severe consequences of violence affect...
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A Clinical Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 in Jamaica
This chapter examines the psychological antecedents of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Jamaica, through selected local cases reported in the print...
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Loss of Control and Technology Acceptance
An etymological approach to the term “loss of control” begins with the partial terms “control” and “loss”. Here, “control” implies several possible...
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The Longer it is, the Closer One Feels: Perception of Emotional Closeness to the Partner, Relationship Duration, Sexual Activity, and Satisfaction in Married and Cohabiting Persons in Norway
This study explores the connection between relationship duration and feelings of closeness in Norwegian men and women, and the association with...
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Hopeful Woman, Happy Couple: A Dyadic Model of Hope, Partner Support, and Relationship Satisfaction
There is a growing need to identify personal and interpersonal resilience factors that might enhance relationship satisfaction and lead to happier...
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Loss of a Life Partner: Self-Isolation in Urban Kolkata
With the advancement of medical sciences and increase in life expectancy, discussions on death have become a rarity in modern societies. Most...
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Experienced Trauma Through Loss
Our understanding of trauma, confirmed by the literature review primarily associates it with fundamental experiences of loss (Klein, 1952, 1955)....
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Liminal Experience: The Solo Mother, Fertility Clinics, and Ambiguous Loss
In this chapter, I focus on how the Solo Mother by Choice (SMBC) is represented in anti-donation discourse and in fertility clinics. Despite research...
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The shadow pandemic: exploring the indigenous factors behind life-threatening and trivial intimate Partner violence during COVID-19 in South Punjab, Pakistan
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a salient public health issue that affects the gender symmetry between couples in wedlock during COVID-19. This...