East Asian UMBC Students’ Perspectives on Intimate Relationships and Violence
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Kang, Yoo-jin. “East Asian UMBC Students’ Perspectives on Intimate Relationships and Violence.” UMBC Review: Journal of Undergraduate Research 17 (2016): 128–61. https://ur.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/354/2016/05/kangYooJin.pdf
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Intimate Partner Violence is a growing public health concern in the United States. More than one in three women and one in four men have experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime, according to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2010 Summary Report (NIPSV) developed by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control. While intimate partner violence is prevalent in all communities, this paper will present a study of college-aged East-Asian students’ understandings of relationships, violence, and relevant resources at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). This exploration stemmed from the lack of information about the impact of intimate partner violence in the East-Asian community in the U.S. This study focused on students who attend UMBC due to the fact that nearly half of the minority student enrollment at UMBC consists of students of Asian heritage, making research about this community particularly relevant.