OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between marital status and lack of internal health locus of control (HLC), taking economic stress and trust into account. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS The public health survey Skåne 2008 is a postal questionnaire study (55% participation rate). A random sample was invited to participate, and 28,198 individuals aged 18-80 years agreed....

The purpose of this 16-year prospective follow-up study was to investigate the association between parental divorce in childhood and intimate relationship quality in adulthood. The mediating role of psychosocial resources (parent-child relationships at 16 years, self-esteem and social support at 32 years) in this association was also studied. All 16 year olds of one Finnish city completed quest...

The risk-fear paradox, whereby people who experience the least criminal victimisation report the greatest fear of crime, has been established in the extant literature. That this paradox is gendered, notably that women report greater fear yet are less likely to experience crime, has also been consistently identified. However, there remains a largely unanswered call to explore further the distinc...

This paper aims to demonstrate how the Malay community's perspective on divorce once stigmatized for women and now supported by community has changed. study is essential in answering why Riau file divorce, feels about occurrence of female public perceptions affect them. The exchange theory, which emphasizes analysis costs rewards executing rights obligations as husband wife, was used perform th...

marriage and having a family is along with consequences for each person and it provides the ground for developing identity and stability in his life. however, the separation of couples leads to various problems. this issue is along with far more complicated problems for women. the objective of this study is the better understanding of motherhood experiences of divorced women on the custody of t...

OBJECTIVES To assess mammography utilization and knowledge, and to determine barriers associated with mammography utilization among Saudi women. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey in 5 main geographic regions of Saudi Arabia from February 2015 to May 2015. The sample comprised women aged ≥40 years. Associations between socio-demographic factors and mammography use were tested using ...