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- Title
ATTITUDES TOWARDS JUSTIFYING INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AMONG MARRIED WOMEN IN BANGLADESH.
- Authors
SAYEM, AMIR MOHAMMAD; BEGUM, HOUSNE ARA; MONEESHA, SHANTA SHYAMOLEE
- Abstract
This study examines women's attitude towards intimate partner violence among 331 Bangladeshi women in five selected disadvantaged areas of Dhaka city. This study used a shorter version of the Inventory of Beliefs about Wife Beating (IBWB) to measure women's attitude towards intimate partner violence. The results revealed that the mean score on the wife-beating scale of 15 items was 7.81 (SD=4.893). Significant amounts of the variance (42.9%) in women's attitude towards intimate partner violence can be attributed to respondent's education (B=−0.60, p<0.001), husband's education (B=−1.251, p<0.01), exposure to mass media (B=−1.251, p<0.01), respondent's current age (B=0.081, p<0.05), age at marriage (B=0.215, p<0.01), intimate partner violence victimization within the last 12 months (B=−1.533, p<0.001) and women receiving micro-credit (small-scale loan or financial assistance) (B= −2.214, p<0.001). The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings.
- Subjects
DHAKA (Bangladesh); BANGLADESH; INTIMATE partner violence; MARRIED womens' attitudes; WIFE abuse; CRIME victims
- Publication
Journal of Biosocial Science, 2012, Vol 44, Issue 6, p641
- ISSN
0021-9320
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021932012000223