This study sought to describe the system of beliefs on gender, attitudes toward women, and wife beating, in young adults who live in Mysore, India. Furthermore, it identified structural sex differences in the interplay of values among these matters that can affect individual and community views toward domestic violence. Drawing from survey data gathered from 265 young adult Indian men and women, this study used network analysis to graph a correlation network of beliefs and attitudes toward domestic violence. Node, scale, and network structure descriptions allowed for comparisons among male and female participant responses. The findings support the assertion that there are sex differences among the system of beliefs toward wife beating among Indian young adults. Gender ideology, masculine role in relationships, and legal and social consequences of wife beating emerged as the most important values to focus on when addressing young men’s beliefs of domestic violence and attitudes toward women. In contrast, values influencing women’s perceptions of domestic violence are more complex and related to multiple beliefs about women’s power, family structure, and social and legal implications of domestic violence. The results highlight the importance of recognizing gender differences in the connectivity between gender and wife beating beliefs when designing interventions. There is a need for efforts to accurately target these values and attitudes to more effectively address gendered attitudes and beliefs about domestic violence in this population.

The critical parameters of a gas with molecules interacting via the Lennard-Jones (6, 12) potential are calculated by analyzing the irreducible cluster integrals b, of the fugacity expansions. The method used here has earlier been successfully applied to the Ising model, and locates the critical temperature T, as the limit of the zeros of the cluster integrals bi. The asymptotic behavior of b, at T, is numerically found, and from the fugacity series the critical pressure p, and the critical density p, are calculated. One can then deduce the correct shape of the critical isotherm pp, 0: sgn(pp, )~pp,~s and determine the reiated critical index 8. The ratio p, /p, k~T, is found to be g(2+5 ')/g(1+8 '), where g(x) is the Riemann zeta function, and its universality is thus related to that of 5. The numerical values of the critical parameters are then compared with the experimental data on rare gases; the agreement is good and represents an improvement over the methods based on equations of state. This can be taken to be a strong support for the numerical conjectures about the behavior of zeros of b, and the asymptotic behavior of b, (T,).

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