Spousal Violence and Spousal Education Difference in Zambia a Cross Sectional Comparative Analysis of Three Demographic Health Survey Cycles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22040985 |
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| Authors | Mwewa Elizabeth Kasonde (Department of Demography, Population Sciences, Monitoring and Evaluation, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Zambia), Bwalya Bupe Bwalya (0000-0002-8439-5390, Mulungushi University), Gift Masaiti (0000-0002-8269-6499, University of Zambia), Chabila Christopher Mapoma (Rusangu University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Law and Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-6402 |
| Publisher | Directorate of Research and Graduate Studies, University of Zambia (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.53974/unza.jlss.6.4.1590 |
| OpenAlex | W4415726328 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
The study aimed to establish the association between spousal education difference and spousal violence among married women in Zambia. The article invokes individual women’s datasets from the 2007, 2013-14 and 2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Surveys (ZDHSs). Currently married women 15-49 years of age who had responded to the domestic violence module formed the core of the sample (2007: 3,216; 2013-14: 7.069; 2018:5,338). Multivariate binary logistic regression was performed to establish the association between spousal violence and spousal education differences and other factors. Adjusting for if a woman’s father “ever beat her mother” and for the notion that “wife beating is justifiable”, in survey years 2013-14 and 2018, women who had equally high education level as their husbands were less likely to have experienced spousal violence (aOR=0.81, p
Domestic violence · Injury prevention · Logistic regression · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Spouse · Suicide prevention · Wife · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Global Maternal and Child Health · Intimate Partner and Family Violence
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