Research

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07 Jul 2023

UP Manila

Pilgrimage can help ease symptoms of depression and anxiety

Research by psychologists and other mental health professionals tries to identify effective ways to manage and prevent emotional turbulence, including...

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07 Jul 2023

UP Visayas

A study of Chavacano shows how linguistic prestige evolves with changes in society

Chavacano is the lone Spanish-based creole in Asia and is spoken in different parts of the Philippine archipelago. Among the...

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07 Jul 2023

UP Los Baños

The sentiments of political actors on social media are “carefully manufactured” and affect our sense of nationalism

The sentiments peddled by political actors on social media are not coincidental. Rather, they are carefully manufactured texts that convey...

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07 Jul 2023

UP Los Baños

How do Filipino writers represent the experiences of young non-Western readers of science fiction?

Despite the popularity of young adult literature and speculative fiction locally and globally, there is not a lot of critical...

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07 Jul 2023

UP Diliman

What is the optimal position of trees that maximizes walking on urban sidewalks?

Trees can improve the walkability of urban outdoor spaces. Hence, studies have been conducted to examine and elucidate the relationship...

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07 Jul 2023

UP Diliman

Calle Crisologo in Vigan is a lived space and Thirdspace for the people who engage with it every day

Christoph Brumann and David Berliner, in their book World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic
Perspectives (2016), ask what World Heritage (WH)...

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07 Jul 2023

UP Diliman

The propagandists struggled with homesickness while in exile

Traditional historiographies such as historian John Schumacher’s seminal work on the Propaganda Movement have portrayed the propagandists as larger-than-life individuals...

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10 May 2023

The Provincial Chinese and the Progress of Iloilo Textile in Nineteenth-Century Philippines

Textiles played a significant role in Philippine economic history. In this study, archival materials and records have shown that the...

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10 May 2023

Feeling like a philosopher of education: A collective response to Jackson’s ‘The smiling philosopher’

The article “Feeling like a philosopher of education: A collective response to Jackson’s ‘The smiling philosopher” (2022) aimed at responding...

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10 May 2023

Protective effects of sugarcane phenolic extract against lipid oxidative damages in raw ground pork and beef during refrigerated storage conditions

Sugarcane phenolic extract is a by-product of the sugar refining process that is rich in phenolic compounds
with strong antioxidant properties....

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Research

Violence can be transferred from one generation to another through social learning. Social learning theory posits that behaviors and values about interpersonal dynamics are learned by observing influential role models in society, such as parents, and that these values and behaviors are similarly reproduced. Considering these theories in the family context, exposure to violence between parents might influence children’s attitudes and values on the acceptability of such behaviors and their consequences in intimate relationships.

The study done by Puno et al. (2023) digs deeper into the reality of the influence of exposure to family violence in the Philippines, specifically the father’s violence against the mother. Using the 2017 Philippines National Demographic and Health Survey dataset of 12,248 currently in-union (married or cohabiting) women aged 15 to 49, the study sought to provide insight into the question, “If a person sees their father physically beating their mother, would they also be involved in intimate partner violence (IPV) in their relationships in the future?” Statistical analyses were performed to assess if there is a link between exposure to parental IPV and women’s odds of being victims and/or perpetrators of IPV themselves. The results showed evidence of intergenerational transmission of IPV wherein women exposed to parental IPV are more likely to be victims of all types of IPV: physical, sexual, and emotional violence. These women are also more likely to perpetrate physical violence against their husbands. When examined jointly, most Filipino women exposed to violence between their parents were both victims and perpetrators (i.e., report a combination of victimization and perpetration) of IPV in their relationships, which can lead to re- victimization and severe consequences for women. The integration of violence prevention within parenting and community programs can be considered to prevent the perpetuation of the intergenerational cycle of IPV.

Most research on this topic, specifically in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV), has been concentrated in high-income countries’ context and much less is known for low- and middle- income countries such as the Philippines. This research is the first account of the intergenerational transmission of violence among women using a nationally representative sample of the Philippines.

Read the full article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827323000575?via%3Dihub