Citation

Yount KM, Pham HT, Minh TH, Krause KH, Schuler SR, Anh HT, Vanderende K, Kramer MR. Ann. Epidemiol. 2014; 24(5): 333-339.

Affiliation

Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American College of Epidemiology, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.annepidem.2014.02.004

PMID

24630242

Abstract

PURPOSE: We assess the association of men's exposure to violence in childhood-witnessing physical violence against one's mother and being hit or beaten by a parent or adult relative-with their attitudes about intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. We explore whether men's perpetration of IPV mediates this relationship and whether men's attitudes about IPV mediate any relationship of exposure to violence in childhood with perpetration of IPV.

METHODS: Five hundred twenty-two married men 18-51 years in Vietnam were interviewed. Multivariate regressions for ordinal and binary responses were estimated to assess these relationships.

RESULTS: Compared with men experiencing neither form of violence in childhood, men experiencing either or both had higher adjusted odds of reporting more reasons to hit a wife (aOR, 1.43; 95% CI, 1.03-2.00 and aOR, 1.66; 95% CI, 1.05-2.64, respectively). Men's lifetime perpetration of IPV accounted fully for these associations. Compared with men experiencing neither form of violence in childhood, men experiencing either or both had higher adjusted odds of ever perpetrating IPV (aOR, 3.28; 95% CI, 2.15-4.99 and aOR, 4.56; 95% CI, 2.90-7.17, respectively). Attitudes about IPV modestly attenuated these associations.

CONCLUSIONS: Addressing violence in childhood is needed to change men's risk of perpetrating IPV and greater subsequent justification of it.

Language: en