RT Article
T1 Empowerment and IPV in Married Women of Reproductive Age: Evidence from Pakistan Demographic Health Survey 2017–2018
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 37
IS 11/12
A1 Ali, Mohammad Vaqas
A2 Tariq, Jawad
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1884273114
AB The study was an attempt to identify demographic, household, and women empowerment factors that predicted emotional, physical, and sexual violence in ever-married women of reproductive age (15?49 years, n = 3,965) in Pakistan by performing secondary analysis on Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, 2017?2018. The analysis was done using SPSS (v.22) and binary and multivariate logistic regression techniques were performed for analyses. The analysis found that 30.2% of women experienced emotional, 24.1% reported less severe physical, 6.5% experienced severe physical, and 4.3% experienced sexual violence, respectively. The multivariate analysis found that husband?s age, education, wealth, and alcohol consumption were significant predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV). Additionally, womens? age, education, and number of children also significantly predicted IPV. With respect to empowerment variables, ownership of house was a significant predictor of less severe physical violence, ownership of property significantly predicted emotional violence, and autonomy in household purchase decisions was significantly related to severe physical violence. The control on husband?s income as a measure of empowerment significantly predicted all four types of IPV. Belief in patriarchy also turned out to be an important factor in determining emotional and less severe physical violence. The study concludes that women empowerment in household context can prevent less serious forms of violence but to hinder serious forms of violence, interventions at family and community level will be required.
K1 Battered Women
K1 Domestic Violence
K1 domestic violence and cultural contexts
K1 perceptions of domestic violence
K1 predicting domestic violence
DO 10.1177/0886260520980380