James-Hawkins, Laurie and Cheong, Yuk Fai and Naved, Ruchira T and Yount, Kathryn M (2018) Gender Norms, Violence in Childhood, and Men’s Coercive Control in Marriage: A Multilevel Analysis of Young Men in Bangladesh. Psychology of Violence, 8 (5). pp. 580-595. DOI https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000152
James-Hawkins, Laurie and Cheong, Yuk Fai and Naved, Ruchira T and Yount, Kathryn M (2018) Gender Norms, Violence in Childhood, and Men’s Coercive Control in Marriage: A Multilevel Analysis of Young Men in Bangladesh. Psychology of Violence, 8 (5). pp. 580-595. DOI https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000152
James-Hawkins, Laurie and Cheong, Yuk Fai and Naved, Ruchira T and Yount, Kathryn M (2018) Gender Norms, Violence in Childhood, and Men’s Coercive Control in Marriage: A Multilevel Analysis of Young Men in Bangladesh. Psychology of Violence, 8 (5). pp. 580-595. DOI https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000152
Abstract
Objective: Coercive control in marriage is common in patriarchal settings, but multilevel determinants are understudied. Method: Using a probability sample of 570 junior men (married, 18–34 years) from the Bangladesh survey of the 2011 UN Multi-Country Study of Men and Violence, we examined how exposure to violence in childhood and community-level gender norms were related to men’s attitudes about gender equity and use of controlling behavior. We tested whether community-level gender norms moderated the relationship between men’s exposure to violence in childhood and our outcomes. Results: According to results from multilevel Poisson regression models, as community gender norms become more equitable by 1 standard deviation, a junior married man’s expected rate of controlling behavior is lower by 0.11, and his rate of agreement with gender equitable attitudes is higher by 0.27. More gender-equitable community norms were negatively related to a junior married man’s use of controlling behavior. Childhood exposure to violence was not associated with use of controlling behavior. There was a significant cross-level interaction such that exposure to violence had a stronger negative impact on men’s gender equitable attitudes in communities with lower overall gender equity than those with higher overall gender equity. The corresponding cross-level interaction effect was not significant for the controlling behavior outcome. Conclusions: More equitable community gender norms may encourage more gender-equitable attitudes and discourage use of controlling behavior among junior men, suggesting that interventions to change community gender norms may reduce coercive control of women in marriage.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Child Maltreatment; Community Gender Norms; Controlling Behavior; Intimate Partner Violence; Domestic Violence; Multilevel Analysis |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2017 13:31 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 17:36 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/20541 |
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