RT Article
T1 Domestic Violence and Its Impact on Abortion in Iran: Evidence From a Nationally Representative Survey
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 38
IS 15/16
SP 9492
OP 9513
A1 Bagheri, Reyhaneh
A1 Farahani, Farideh Khalajabadi
A1 Ebrahimi, Marzieh
A2 Farahani, Farideh Khalajabadi
A2 Ebrahimi, Marzieh
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1851372520
AB The objective of this article is to assess the effect of domestic violence on abortion and investigate the mediating role of unwanted pregnancy. A secondary analysis was conducted on the National Family Survey data. This survey was a cross-sectional study conducted across Iran in 2018. The association between domestic violence and abortion was analyzed using the Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) with WarpPLS version 8.0. From among 1,544 married women (mean age 42.8 years) who participated in this survey, 27% (418 women) reported experiencing at-least one-lifetime of abortion. Overall, two in three women (67.3%) experienced at least one form of domestic violence. Almost half of the women with experience of abortion (49.3%) reported at least one unwanted pregnancy in their life course. The bivariate analysis showed a significant positive relationship between domestic violence and abortion, and there was a positive direct effect of domestic violence on unwanted pregnancy. Moreover, age had a negative direct and indirect effect on unwanted pregnancy and abortion. Although, the direct effect of domestic violence on abortion was not significant in the Structure Equation Model, a positive indirect effect of domestic violence on abortion through unwanted pregnancy was confirmed. The effect of unwanted pregnancy on abortion was particularly strong (β = .395, p < .01). These results have some implications for prevention of abortion through interventions against unwanted and unplanned pregnancy and domestic violence. This study makes a unique theoretical contribution to the literature through assessing the mediating role of unwanted pregnancy between domestic violence and abortion by using the SEM model.
K1 domestic violence and cultural contexts
K1 anything related to domestic violence
K1 cultural contexts
K1 Domestic Violence
DO 10.1177/08862605231168824