TY - JOUR PY - 2010// TI - Wife battering in South Korea: An ecological systems analysis JO - Children and youth services review A1 - Hong, Jun Sung A1 - Kim, Seon Mi A1 - Yoshihama, Mieko A1 - Byoun, Soo-Jung SP - 1623 EP - 1630 VL - 32 IS - 12 N2 - This article reviews the risk and protective factors for wife battering in South Korea based on the ecological systems theory. Although wife battering has been recognized as a major social problem in South Korea, understanding this phenomenon has been limited because the majority of empirical studies have examined individual characteristics without much consideration to broader environmental contexts for the victims and perpetrators. This review integrates the existing findings collectively on the factors associated with wife battering in South Korea within the context of micro-, meso-, exo-, macro-, and chrono-system levels. We then formulate implications on assessment and intervention strategies, which practitioners can utilize. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

LA - SN - 0190-7409 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.07.024 ID - ref1 ER -