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Adolescent boys who experience violence have up to 8 times the odds of perpetrating physical and sexual intimate partner violence that same day, per South African study collecting real-time data over mobile phones

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Measuring real-time violence exposure and its impact on intimate partner violence perpetration among adolescents

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a) IPV (intimate partner violence) physical perpetration by experience of victimization. b) IPV sexual perpetration by experience of victimization.

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Credit: Kidman et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Adolescent boys who experience violence have up to 8 times the odds of perpetrating physical and sexual intimate partner violence that same day, per South African study collecting real-time data over mobile phones

 

 

Article URL: https://plos.io/4brsDzz

Article title: Measuring real-time violence exposure and its impact on intimate partner violence perpetration among adolescents

Author countries: US, South Africa

Funding: Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health under Award R01MH119878. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. JD also received partial funding by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC). SV was partially supported by the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA).


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