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A cross-national comparison of violence among young men in China and the UK: psychiatric and cultural explanations
PURPOSE: Public health psychiatry has a key role in violence prevention. Cross-national comparisons of violence and associated psychiatric morbidity can indicate targets for preventive interventions. METHOD: Data on young adult men in households, 18–34 years, were drawn from the Second Men’s Modern...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5617870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28801755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-017-1420-y |
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author | Coid, Jeremy Hu, Junmei Kallis, Constantinos Ping, Yuan Zhang, Juying Hu, Yueying Bui, Laura Ullrich, Simone Bebbington, Paul |
author_facet | Coid, Jeremy Hu, Junmei Kallis, Constantinos Ping, Yuan Zhang, Juying Hu, Yueying Bui, Laura Ullrich, Simone Bebbington, Paul |
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description | PURPOSE: Public health psychiatry has a key role in violence prevention. Cross-national comparisons of violence and associated psychiatric morbidity can indicate targets for preventive interventions. METHOD: Data on young adult men in households, 18–34 years, were drawn from the Second Men’s Modern Lifestyles survey in Great Britain (n = 2046) and from a corresponding survey in Chengdu, China (n = 4132), using a translated questionnaire. Binary logistic regression models were carried out to estimate the cross-national differences for different types of violence and to identify explanatory variables. RESULTS: Chinese men were less likely to report violence in the past 5 years (AOR 0.59, 95% CI 0.48–0.72, P < 0.001). All levels of violence were lower among Chinese men except intimate partner violence (AOR 2.43, 95% CI 1.65–3.59, P < 0.001) and a higher proportion of Chinese men were only violent towards their partners (AOR 7.90, 95% CI 3.27–19.07, P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Cross-national differences were explained by British men’s reports of early violence persisting into adulthood, confidence in fighting ability, perception that violence is acceptable behaviour, and experience of violent victimization. More British men screened positive for antisocial personality disorder and substance misuse. Attitudes which condone violence and a serious problem of alcohol-related, male-on-male violence are key targets for preventive interventions among British men. The higher prevalence of life course-persistent antisocial behaviour among British men is of concern and requires further investigation. Higher prevalence of intimate partner violence among Chinese men reflects patriarchal approaches to conflict resolution and confirms an important public health problem in China which requires further cross-national investigation. |
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spelling | pubmed-56178702017-10-12 A cross-national comparison of violence among young men in China and the UK: psychiatric and cultural explanations Coid, Jeremy Hu, Junmei Kallis, Constantinos Ping, Yuan Zhang, Juying Hu, Yueying Bui, Laura Ullrich, Simone Bebbington, Paul Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol Original Paper PURPOSE: Public health psychiatry has a key role in violence prevention. Cross-national comparisons of violence and associated psychiatric morbidity can indicate targets for preventive interventions. METHOD: Data on young adult men in households, 18–34 years, were drawn from the Second Men’s Modern Lifestyles survey in Great Britain (n = 2046) and from a corresponding survey in Chengdu, China (n = 4132), using a translated questionnaire. Binary logistic regression models were carried out to estimate the cross-national differences for different types of violence and to identify explanatory variables. RESULTS: Chinese men were less likely to report violence in the past 5 years (AOR 0.59, 95% CI 0.48–0.72, P < 0.001). All levels of violence were lower among Chinese men except intimate partner violence (AOR 2.43, 95% CI 1.65–3.59, P < 0.001) and a higher proportion of Chinese men were only violent towards their partners (AOR 7.90, 95% CI 3.27–19.07, P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Cross-national differences were explained by British men’s reports of early violence persisting into adulthood, confidence in fighting ability, perception that violence is acceptable behaviour, and experience of violent victimization. More British men screened positive for antisocial personality disorder and substance misuse. Attitudes which condone violence and a serious problem of alcohol-related, male-on-male violence are key targets for preventive interventions among British men. The higher prevalence of life course-persistent antisocial behaviour among British men is of concern and requires further investigation. Higher prevalence of intimate partner violence among Chinese men reflects patriarchal approaches to conflict resolution and confirms an important public health problem in China which requires further cross-national investigation. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017-08-11 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5617870/ /pubmed/28801755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-017-1420-y Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Coid, Jeremy Hu, Junmei Kallis, Constantinos Ping, Yuan Zhang, Juying Hu, Yueying Bui, Laura Ullrich, Simone Bebbington, Paul A cross-national comparison of violence among young men in China and the UK: psychiatric and cultural explanations |
title | A cross-national comparison of violence among young men in China and the UK: psychiatric and cultural explanations |
title_full | A cross-national comparison of violence among young men in China and the UK: psychiatric and cultural explanations |
title_fullStr | A cross-national comparison of violence among young men in China and the UK: psychiatric and cultural explanations |
title_full_unstemmed | A cross-national comparison of violence among young men in China and the UK: psychiatric and cultural explanations |
title_short | A cross-national comparison of violence among young men in China and the UK: psychiatric and cultural explanations |
title_sort | cross-national comparison of violence among young men in china and the uk: psychiatric and cultural explanations |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5617870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28801755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-017-1420-y |
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