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Joanna Krajewska1,2, Sarah R Meyer1,2, Neema Mosha1,2,3
1Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research, Medical Faculty, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
Abstract:
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.
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