Investigating non-invariance of psychological intimate partner violence measures in the demographic and health surveys: roles of survey design and national context in 19 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One third of adult women report lifetime psychological intimate partner violence (IPV). Controlling behavior is a common dimension of psychological IPV; however, evidence is mixed on its cross-national and cross-time measurement invariance, limiting its use to monitor Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5.2.1, to eliminate all forms of violence against women. We explored easier-to-modify survey-design features and harder-to-modify individual-level and national-level characteristics that may account for non-invariance of these controlling-behavior items.

Methods

We analyzed data on five controlling behaviors administered to 373,167 ever-partnered women 15-49 years in 19 low- or middle-income countries in which at least two national Demographic and Health Surveys wer

SUBMITTER: Yount KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12345103 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature