Journal Article

ATTITUDES TOWARDS JUSTIFYING INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AMONG MARRIED WOMEN IN BANGLADESH

MONEESHA, SHANTA SHYAMOLEE, SAYEM, AMIR MOHAMMAD, BEGUM, HOUSNE ARA

2012

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Adolescent / Adult / Attitude / Attitudes / Bangladesh / Beliefs / Biological and medical sciences / Credit / Development Programs / Disadvantaged / Domestic violence / Education / Family Violence / Female / Females / General aspects / Humans / Intimate partner violence / Loans / Marriage / Marriage - psychology / Marriage and Family Education / Mass media / Measures / Media / Medical sciences / Microfinance / Middle Aged / Miscellaneous / Multivariate Analysis / Partner Abuse / Poverty / Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry / Psychopathology. Psychiatry / Public health. Hygiene / Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine / Respondents / Sex roles / Social research / Socioeconomic Factors / Spouse Abuse / Urban Population / Victimization / Victimology / Wives / Women