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ATTITUDES TOWARDS JUSTIFYING INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AMONG MARRIED WOMEN IN BANGLADESH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

AMIR MOHAMMAD SAYEM ,
HOUSNE ARA BEGUM  and
SHANTA SHYAMOLEE MONEESHA
AMIR MOHAMMAD SAYEM
Affiliation:
South East Asia Journal of Public Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh
HOUSNE ARA BEGUM
Affiliation:
Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
SHANTA SHYAMOLEE MONEESHA
Affiliation:
Department of Population Sciences, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Summary

This study examines women's attitude towards intimate partner violence among 331 Bangladeshi women in five selected disadvantaged areas of Dhaka city. This study used a shorter version of the Inventory of Beliefs about Wife Beating (IBWB) to measure women's attitude towards intimate partner violence. The results revealed that the mean score on the wife-beating scale of 15 items was 7.81 (SD=4.893). Significant amounts of the variance (42.9%) in women's attitude towards intimate partner violence can be attributed to respondent's education (B=−0.60, p<0.001), husband's education (B=−1.251, p<0.01), exposure to mass media (B=−1.251, p<0.01), respondent's current age (B=0.081, p<0.05), age at marriage (B=0.215, p<0.01), intimate partner violence victimization within the last 12 months (B=−1.533, p<0.001) and women receiving micro-credit (small-scale loan or financial assistance) (B= −2.214, p<0.001). The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 44 , Issue 6 , November 2012 , pp. 641 - 660
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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