TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping Perceptions of Violence Across Asian Regions and Countries
AU - Park, Yangjin
AU - Song, Jingyeong
AU - Sullivan, Kathrine
AU - Paik, Seunghoon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Violence is increasing in Asia. However, limited research exists on the prevalence and types of violence across Asian regions and countries; a comprehensive study on a continental-scale in Asia has been understudied. Guided by the World Health Organization’s definition of violence, this study used World Values Survey Wave 7 (n = 35,435) to map the perceptions of the justifiability of three categories of violence (self-inflicted, interpersonal, collective) with five subtypes (suicide, intimate partner violence against wife, child abuse, violence toward other people, political violence) in six regions and 24 countries in Asia. Findings indicate that perceptions of the justifiability of violence are significantly different across regions in Asia. Perceptions of the justifiability of various types of violence differed across Asian countries. Considering the complexity and diversity of violence across Asian regions and countries, this study may be a cornerstone for violence research in Asia.
AB - Violence is increasing in Asia. However, limited research exists on the prevalence and types of violence across Asian regions and countries; a comprehensive study on a continental-scale in Asia has been understudied. Guided by the World Health Organization’s definition of violence, this study used World Values Survey Wave 7 (n = 35,435) to map the perceptions of the justifiability of three categories of violence (self-inflicted, interpersonal, collective) with five subtypes (suicide, intimate partner violence against wife, child abuse, violence toward other people, political violence) in six regions and 24 countries in Asia. Findings indicate that perceptions of the justifiability of violence are significantly different across regions in Asia. Perceptions of the justifiability of various types of violence differed across Asian countries. Considering the complexity and diversity of violence across Asian regions and countries, this study may be a cornerstone for violence research in Asia.
KW - Asia
KW - Perceptions of violence
KW - World Values Survey
KW - child abuse
KW - intimate partner violence
KW - mapping violence
KW - political violence
KW - prevalence of violence
KW - suicide
KW - violence against others
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U2 - 10.1177/00219096211069649
DO - 10.1177/00219096211069649
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122651903
JO - Journal of Asian and African Studies
JF - Journal of Asian and African Studies
SN - 0021-9096
ER -