Linos Natalia, Khawaja Marwan, Al-Nsour Mohannad
Harvard School of Public Health, USA.
Violence Vict. 2010;25(3):409-19. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.25.3.409.
The aim of this study is to examine attitudes among married women toward wife beating and to investigate the hypothesis that female individual empowerment is associated with such attitudes within a broader context of societal patriarchy in Jordan. The study uses data from a cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of married women (n = 5,390) conducted in 2002. Associations between acceptance of wife beating and several women's empowerment variables, including decision-making power, as well as other risk factors were assessed, using odds ratios from binary logistic regression models. The key finding is that the vast majority (87.5%) of Jordanian women believe that wife beating is justified in at least one hypothetical scenario, and justification is negatively associated with empowerment variables and some demographic, geographic, and socioeconomic factors.
本研究的目的是考察已婚妇女对殴打妻子行为的态度，并在约旦社会父权制这一更广泛背景下，调查女性个体赋权与这些态度相关的假设。该研究使用了2002年对已婚妇女代表性样本（n = 5390）进行的横断面调查数据。利用二元逻辑回归模型的比值比，评估了接受殴打妻子行为与若干女性赋权变量（包括决策权）以及其他风险因素之间的关联。关键发现是，绝大多数（87.5%）约旦妇女认为，在至少一种假设情况下殴打妻子是合理的，而合理性与赋权变量以及一些人口、地理和社会经济因素呈负相关。
