Citation

Yount KM, Higgins EM, Vanderende KE, Krause KH, Minh TH, Schuler SR, Anh HT. Men Masc. 2015; 19(1): 64-84.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1097184X15572896

PMID

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Abstract

Using the survey responses of 522 married men (eighteen to fifty-one years) in Vietnam, we explored how gendered social learning in boyhood and challenges to men's expected status in marriage may increase the risk that men perpetrate intimate partner violence (IPV) against their wives. Over one-third (36.6 percent) of the participants reported having ever perpetrated psychological, physical, or sexual IPV against their current wife. Accounting for other characteristics of men in the sample, witnessing IPV as a boy, being physically maltreated as a boy, and being the same age or younger than one's wife were associated with almost two to three times higher odds of perpetrating any IPV. Men with thirteen to eighteen completed grades of schooling had about half the adjusted odds of ever perpetrating any IPV than men with twelve or fewer completed grades (aOR = 0.56). The determinants of men's perpetration of physical IPV and psychological IPV were, largely, similar. Programs to prevent men's perpetration of IPV should address the parenting practices of boys that legitimize men's aggression and gendered status expectations in marriage, which when challenged, may lead husbands to respond with violence. Engaging men to endorse nonviolent masculinities is an important consideration for future intervention.

Language: en