High school girls' and violence: a mixed-method investigation

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dc.contributor.authorPhillips, Julie
dc.contributor.authorMalcolm, C.
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-29T07:25:02Z
dc.date.available2014-08-29T07:25:02Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractViolence is a problem of epidemic proportions among the youth both internationally and locally. Women and girls are not immune to the high levels of violence in society. The overall purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of health risk behaviours among black female high school learners in the Strand, Western Cape, South Africa. This article reports only on those behaviours related to violence. The method of enquiry used in the study was a mixed-method sequential explanatory strategy. In the 1st phase, learners completed a self-administered questionnaire adapted from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBSS) developed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States (US). In the second phase, focus group discussions were conducted to explore and examine socially constructed views of learners on behaviours related to violence. The cross-sectional data of this study illustrated that many high school learners are exposed to a number of health-impacting risks derivative of exposure to multiple forms of violence. The qualitative data expanded on and contextualized the quantitative findings. The study highlighted that detailed attention must be paid to the role of the social environment as antecedent to the adoption of risky behaviours such as violence related activities.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPhillips, J.S. & Malcolm, C. (2010). High school girls' and violence: a mixed-method investigation. African Safety Promotion Journal 8(1): 21-35en_US
dc.identifier.issn1919809570
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1216
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherMedical Research Council, Tygerbergen_US
dc.rightsCopyright 2010 Phillips & Malcolm. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 South Africa.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectHigh school girlsen_US
dc.subjectViolenceen_US
dc.subjectMixed methods strategyen_US
dc.titleHigh school girls' and violence: a mixed-method investigationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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