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The Impact of Women's Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence and Gender Equity on Intimate Partner Violence Experience

Findings From a Longitudinal Study in Mwanza, Tanzania

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ID12435982
AuthorsJoanna Krajewska (0009-0005-4491-8862, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research, Medical Faculty, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany), Sarah R Meyer (0000-0001-8595-2358, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research, Medical Faculty, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany), Neema Mosha (0000-0002-5943-9494, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research, Medical Faculty, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany), Gerry Mshana (0000-0001-8753-7561, Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania), Heidi Stöckl (0000-0002-0907-8483, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research, Medical Faculty, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2025
Pages10778012251369029-10778012251369029
Publication date2025-08-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778012251369029
PMID40836848
OpenAlexW4413403313
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited51

Inequitable gender norms can manifest in attitudes about gender and intimate partner violence (IPV) acceptability and be risk factors for women's experience of male-perpetrated IPV. This longitudinal study explored the effect of Tanzanian women's attitudes toward gender equity and toward IPV on physical and/or sexual IPV experience with mixed-effects and cross-lagged regressions. Unadjusted mixed-effects regression shows that an increase in gender equity or IPV unacceptance is significantly associated with a decrease of IPV experience. Cross-lagged regression did not find a significant association. Other contextual factors, rather than women's attitudes toward gender equity and IPV, may be key determinants of IPV experiences

Criminology · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Domestic violence · Economics · Environmental health · Equity (law · Gender equity · Injury prevention · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Sexual violence · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Tanzania · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology

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