Women’s socioeconomic status and attitudes toward intimate partner violence in Eswatini: A multilevel analysis

Attitudes supportive of spousal violence retards developmental efforts worldwide, and in particular in patriarchal African settings. It is important to curb this behavior by designing preventative evidence-based policies. This study examines the acceptance of intimate partner violence among women re...

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Published in:PloS one 2023-11, Vol.18 (11), p.e0294160-e0294160
Main Authors: Chemhaka, Garikayi B, Moyo, Stanzia, Simelane, Maswati S, Odimegwu, Clifford
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abused women
Acceptance
Aggression
Attitudes
Biology and Life Sciences
Community
Developing countries
Domestic violence
Earth Sciences
Education
Educational attainment
Family violence
Gender-based violence
Higher education
Intimate partner violence
LDCs
Low income groups
Medicine and Health Sciences
Police reports
Random effects
Research and Analysis Methods
Secondary education
Sex roles
Social aspects
Social classes
Social Sciences
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomic status
Socioeconomics
Statistical analysis
Surveys
Violence
Women
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Summary:Attitudes supportive of spousal violence retards developmental efforts worldwide, and in particular in patriarchal African settings. It is important to curb this behavior by designing preventative evidence-based policies. This study examines the acceptance of intimate partner violence among women residing in Eswatini and determines whether attitudes supportive of intimate partner violence are associated with women's low socioeconomic status both at the individual- and community-level. Cross-sectional secondary data from two Eswatini Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) conducted in 2010 and 2014 with representative samples of 4,686 and 4,761 women, respectively were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multilevel (random effect) logistic regressions. Overall, the prevalence of acceptance of intimate partner violence declined significantly between 2010 and 2014 in Eswatini (29.0% vs. 19.8%, p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0294160