Individual and societal risk factors of attitudes justifying intimate partner violence against women: a multilevel cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Attitudes justifying intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) can play an essential role in explaining the prevalence of such public health problem. The study aim was to explain attitudes justifying IPVAW identifying individual and societal risk factors.

Design and setting

A multilevel cross-sectional study of the World Values Survey (WVS) in 54 global countries.

Participants

A representative transnational community-based sample of 81 516 participants (47.8% male, 52.1% female), aged mean of 42.41.

Measures

Attitudes justifying IPVAW, sociodemographic, sexism, self-transcendence and conservation values were measured using questions from WVS. Country and regional gender inequality were assessed by Gender Inequality Index.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Serrano-Montilla C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733202 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature