A Multilevel Analysis of Partner Violence

伴侣暴力的多层次分析

基本信息

批准号：
9097756
负责人：
KATHRYN M YOUNT
金额：
$ 7.82万
依托单位：
EMORY UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2015-06-24 至 2018-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Globally, research on intimate partner violence (IPV) is based on women's reported exposure, with little known about the determinants of men's perpetration. Nascent evidence in poorer settings suggests that childhood experiences and local gender norms may synergistically influence men's risks of perpetration, but these risk factors have not been studied together. In historically patriarchal settings like Bangladesh, norms among senior men about equity-inequity in gender relations and violence against women may influence those of lower-status community members, including younger men. Compared to more senior men, younger men are more likely to be establishing patterns of behavior in marriage, and their behaviors, including the perpetration of IPV, may be more amenable to change. AIMS. Using data from a population- based survey of men in Bangladesh, we will develop and test a novel measurement model for senior men's community-level gender norms. We will use this measure in a multilevel analysis to explore whether living amidst local norms among senior men favoring gender equity and disfavoring violence against women lowers the risk of perpetrating physical IPV among younger men, either directly, and/or by buffering the influence of younger men's exposure to violence in childhood. DATA. The sample includes 961 senior men 35-49 years (y) and 564 ever-married men 18-34 y nested in 50 urban and 65 rural communities who took part in the survey of Men's Attitudes and Practices Regarding Gender and Violence Against Women in Bangladesh. METHODS. We will use 3-level item response theory (IRT) methods to explore and refine the measurement of community- level gender norms among senior men, including an assessment of the measure's dimensionality, reliability, measurement invariance across urban and rural communities, and within-community heterogeneity. We will use multilevel logistic regression to assess (1) the relationship between community gender norms and a younger ever-married man's probability of perpetrating any prior-year physical IPV and (2) whether the association of a younger man's exposure to violence in childhood with his probability of perpetrating recent physical IPV depends on community-level gender norms. Sensitivity analyses will test the robustness of the findings. INNOVATION. Globally, research is lacking on (1) men's perpetration of IPV and (2) the measurement of community-level gender norms among men using advanced methods. Thus, little is known about the associations of community-level gender norms (developed through such measurement models) with younger men's perpetration of IPV, directly and by buffering the potentially adverse influence of childhood exposure to violence. These data offer a rare occasion to explore these understudied relationships. Our novel analytic strategy will advance the fields of study on community gender norms among men and the multilevel determinants of men's IPV perpetration. Our results will inform national policies and community programs to reduce men's perpetration of IPV in Bangladesh, with implications for research and policy in similar settings.

描述（由适用提供）：在全球范围内，关于亲密伴侣暴力的研究（IPV）是基于妇女报告的暴露，对男性犯罪的决定者鲜为人知。较差的环境中的新生证据表明，童年经历和当地性别规范可能会协同影响男性的犯罪风险，但是这些危险因素尚未共同研究。在孟加拉国等历史上的父权制环境中，关于性别关系和暴力妇女暴力行为的高级男人规范可能会影响包括年轻男子在内的低位置社区成员的规范。与更多的高级男人相比，年轻人更有可能建立婚姻行为模式，而包括IPV的犯罪在内的行为可能更适合改变。目标。使用孟加拉国基于人群的男子调查的数据，我们将开发和测试针对高级男子社区级别性别规范的新型测量模型。我们将在多层次分析中使用这项措施来探讨在高级男子中，在当地规范中，对性别平等和不利于对女性的暴力行为不利的高级男子中的生活是否会直接直接在年轻男性中进行身体IPV的风险，或者通过缓冲年轻男性对童年暴力暴露的影响。数据。该样本包括961名高级男子35-49岁（Y）和564名夫妇，18-34岁的男性在50个城市和65个农村社区中筑巢，他们参加了男子对孟加拉国妇女的性别和暴力行为的调查。方法。我们将使用3级项目响应理论（IRT）方法来探索和完善高级男性社区水平性别规范的衡量，包括评估衡量标准的维度，可靠性，城市和农村社区之间的测量不变性，以及社区内部的异质性。我们将使用多层次逻辑回归来评估（1）社区性别规范与年轻人结婚的人之间的关系，该男人曾对任何上一年的物理IPV进行犯罪的可能性以及（2）（2）年轻人在童年时期对童年的暴力暴露的关系是否与最近的物理IPV有关的可能性取决于社区级别的性别规范。灵敏度分析将测试发现的鲁棒性。创新。在全球范围内，缺乏（1）男性对IPV的实施以及（2）使用高级方法对男性中社区级别的性别规范的衡量。这对社区级别的性别规范（通过此类测量模型开发）与年轻男性对IPV的犯罪的关联知之甚少，并通过缓冲儿童期暴露于暴力的潜在不利影响。这些数据为探索这些知识的关系提供了罕见的机会。我们的新颖分析策略将推进男性中社区性别规范的研究领域以及男性IPV犯罪的多层次决定者。我们的结果将为国家政策和社区计划提供依据，以减少孟加拉国IPV犯罪的国家政策，并在类似情况下对研究和政策产生影响。