The role of self-efficacy in women's autonomy for health and nutrition decision-making in rural Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Agency - including the sub-domains of intrinsic agency, instrumental agency, and collective agency - is a critical component of the women's empowerment process. Self-efficacy (a component of intrinsic agency) may operate as a motivational influence for women to make choices according to their own preferences or goals, such that higher self-efficacy would be associated with more autonomous decision-making (a key component of instrumental agency).

Methods

We examine these relationships using mixed methods. We developed a series of decision-making autonomy indices, which captured alignment between the woman's reported and preferred roles in health and nutrition decisions. Using ordinal logistic regression, we assessed the relationship between generalized self-efficac

SUBMITTER: Salinger AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10832193 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature