Abstract

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a serious public health concern that transcends partnership types and societies, affecting approximately one-third of women worldwide. Men in same-sex relationships likely experience violence at similar rates. This dissertation takes a fundamental cause approach to social-ecological and minority stress theories, arguing that structural forces are the root causes of violence in two target populations: women residing in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and Indigenous men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States. Consisting of eight chapters, four of which are empirical studies, this body of work creates new knowledge surrounding how social scripts, environments of stigma, and contexts of inequality shape the risk for IPV in marginalized populations.

Description

This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 27536157; ProQuest document ID: 2306931814. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Nicholas S. Metheny, PhD, MPH, RN

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Other

Research Approach

Other

Keywords:

Men who have Sex with Men, Indigenous People, Intimate Partner Violence, Fundamental Cause Theory

Advisor

Lynae Darbes

Second Advisor

Erin Kahle

Third Advisor

Lisa Kane-Low

Fourth Advisor

Jennifer Barber

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Michigan

Degree Year

2019

Rights Holder

All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.

All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.

All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.

Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2024-08-29

Full Text of Presentation

wf_yes

Share

COinS