Bonnes Stephanie
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Violence Vict. 2016;31(1):51-69. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-00016. Epub 2015 Dec 8.
Intimate partner violence is a social and public health problem that is prevalent across the world. In many societies, power differentials in relationships, often supported by social norms that promote gender inequality, lead to incidents of intimate partner violence. Among other factors, both a woman's years of education and educational differences between a woman and her partner have been shown to have an effect on her likelihood of experiencing intimate partner abuse. Using the 2010 Malawian Demographic and Health Survey data to analyze intimate partner violence among 3,893 married Malawian women and their husbands, this article focuses on understanding the effect of educational differences between husband and wife on the likelihood of physical and emotional abuse within a marriage. The results from logistic regression models show that a woman's level of education is a significant predictor of her likelihood of experiencing intimate partner violence by her current husband, but that this effect is contingent on her husband's level of education. This study demonstrates the need to educate men alongside of women in Malawi to help decrease women's risk of physical and emotional intimate partner violence.
亲密伴侣暴力是一个在全球普遍存在的社会和公共卫生问题。在许多社会中，关系中的权力差异，往往受到促进性别不平等的社会规范的支持，导致亲密伴侣暴力事件的发生。在其他因素中，女性的受教育年限以及女性与其伴侣之间的教育差异，已被证明会对她遭受亲密伴侣虐待的可能性产生影响。本文利用2010年马拉维人口与健康调查数据，对3893名已婚马拉维妇女及其丈夫之间的亲密伴侣暴力进行分析，重点在于了解夫妻之间的教育差异对婚姻中身体和情感虐待可能性的影响。逻辑回归模型的结果表明，女性的教育水平是其遭受现任丈夫亲密伴侣暴力可能性的一个重要预测因素，但这种影响取决于其丈夫的教育水平。这项研究表明，在马拉维，有必要对男性和女性进行教育，以帮助降低女性遭受亲密伴侣身体和情感暴力的风险。
