TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Women's autonomy and support for wife beating: findings from a population-based survey in Jordan
JO  - Violence and victims
A1  - Linos, Natalia
A1  - Khawaja, Marwan
A1  - Al-Nsour, Mohannad
SP  - 409
EP  - 419
VL  - 25
IS  - 3
N2  - The aim of this study is to examine attitudes among married women toward wife beating and to investigate the hypothesis that female individual empowerment is associated with such attitudes within a broader context of societal patriarchy in Jordan. The study uses data from a cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of married women (n = 5,390) conducted in 2002. Associations between acceptance of wife beating and several women's empowerment variables, including decision-making power, as well as other risk factors were assessed, using odds ratios from binary logistic regression models. The key finding is that the vast majority (87.5%) of Jordanian women believe that wife beating is justified in at least one hypothetical scenario, and justification is negatively associated with empowerment variables and some demographic, geographic, and socioeconomic factors.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-6708
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -