Attitudes to Domestic Violence in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Multi-Level Approach to Prevention

低收入和中等收入国家对家庭暴力的态度：多层次的预防方法

• 批准号: ES/L009811/1
• 负责人: LynnMarie Sardinha
• 金额: $ 23.26万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL009811%2F1
• 关键词: Attitudes; Domestic; Violence; Low; Middle

The project will provide reliable, high quality data on attitudes to domestic violence (DV) in low- and middle-income countries across East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. This is one of the first studies to focus on the systemic social, political and economic influences on societal acceptability of DV making a much needed contribution to research and national and international policy aimed at changing attitudes and preventing DV.This work is important because DV against women is the most common form of violence against women worldwide and is far-reaching in its impact. There is clear evidence that gender equality is integral to the achievement of the MDGs, however the failure to address DV is a gap in the current MDGs. Research in over 35 countries worldwide has shown that women's and men's attitudes justifying DV is strongly associated with DV perpetration and victimisation. Thus, to optimally target resources into evidence-based prevention it is vital to identify those wider social, political and economic factors that reinforce societal acceptability of DV. This study will use nationally-representative household surveys with individual-, country- and regional-level data and sources of high quality metadata on the social and economic development of countries and geographic regions to answer a set of important questions about attitudes to DV across low- and middle-income countries and the systemic factors influencing these attitudes. For example, how do attitudes to DV differ between countries and geographic regions? Are economic factors like women's labour force participation, ownership of property and other assets associated with societal attitudes to DV? Does access to education and educational attainment explain differences in attitudes to DV? Does social development and economic inequality influence attitudes to DV? Are social institutions like family laws, access to productive resources associated with attitudes to DV? Does women's representation in Parliament and participation in public life influence societal attitudes to DV? While government legislation is considered important to combat this problem, there has been little research on which governments act and the effects of legislation on attitudes. This study will answer these questions by analysing the social, economic and political profile of nations (and geographic regions within which they are nested) which have DV legislation, and the effect of legislation on shifting women's and men's attitudes to DV. These questions are best addressed using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. In addition to analysing datasets, a review of DV legislation and key informant interviews will be conducted with policy-makers and representatives of national and international organisations within select case study countries.Data produced by the study will allow for the creation of a database which will provide robust and interpretable data on attitudes to DV within the context of key social development and economic empowerment indicators, and the existence and quality of DV legislation and policy. These data will be of interest to and can be used by academics across disciplines, policymakers, non-governmental organisations, international development agencies and donors interested in DV prevention strategies and the measurement of attitudes to DV as a component of gender equality and empowerment.There is increasing recognition of the need to focus on prevention, however evidence-based prevention is still nascent especially in relation to tackling societal acceptability of DV. This work is timely given that the thematic priorities of UN Women are gender-based violence, economic empowerment and women's political participation and the focus of the 2013 UN Commission on the Status of Women is on preventing violence against women and girls.

该项目将提供东亚和太平洋地区、欧洲和中亚、拉丁美洲和加勒比、中东和北非、南亚和撒哈拉以南非洲中低收入国家对家庭暴力态度的可靠、高质量数据。这是第一批集中研究系统的社会、政治和经济影响对社会接受家庭暴力的影响的研究之一，为旨在改变态度和预防家庭暴力的研究和国家及国际政策做出了急需的贡献。这项工作很重要，因为针对妇女的家庭暴力是全世界最常见的暴力侵害妇女形式，影响深远。有明确的证据表明，两性平等是实现千年发展目标不可或缺的一部分，然而，未能解决家庭暴力问题是当前千年发展目标中的一个差距。在全世界35个以上国家进行的研究表明，妇女和男子为家庭暴力辩护的态度与家庭暴力的实施和再发生密切相关。因此，为了最佳地将资源用于循证预防，必须查明那些更广泛的社会、政治和经济因素，以加强社会对家庭暴力的接受程度。这项研究将利用具有国家代表性的住户调查，以及个人、国家和区域层面的数据和关于各国和各地理区域社会和经济发展的高质量元数据来源，回答一系列关于中低收入国家对家庭暴力的态度以及影响这些态度的系统性因素的重要问题。例如，各国和各地理区域对家庭暴力的态度有何不同？妇女参加劳动力队伍、拥有财产和其他资产等经济因素是否与社会对家庭暴力的态度有关？受教育的机会和教育程度能否解释对家庭暴力态度的差异？社会发展和经济不平等是否影响对家庭暴力的态度？家庭法等社会制度、获得生产性资源的机会是否与对家庭暴力的态度有关？妇女在议会中的代表性和对公共生活的参与是否会影响社会对家庭暴力的态度？虽然政府立法被认为对解决这一问题很重要，但对哪些政府采取行动以及立法对态度的影响却很少进行研究。本研究将通过分析制定了家庭暴力立法的国家（及其所在的地理区域）的社会、经济和政治概况以及立法对改变妇女和男子对家庭暴力态度的影响来回答这些问题。这些问题最好采用定量和定性相结合的办法加以解决。除了分析数据集外，还将对选定的案例研究国家的政策制定者和国家及国际组织的代表进行家庭暴力立法审查和关键知情人访谈，研究产生的数据将有助于建立一个数据库，在关键的社会发展和经济赋权指标的背景下，提供关于对家庭暴力态度的可靠和可解释的数据，家庭暴力立法和政策的存在和质量。对预防家庭暴力战略感兴趣的跨学科学者、决策者、非政府组织、国际发展机构和捐助者以及对衡量对家庭暴力的态度作为性别平等和赋权的一个组成部分感兴趣的人将对这些数据感兴趣，并可使用这些数据。然而，循证预防仍处于初期阶段，特别是在解决社会对家庭暴力的接受程度方面。鉴于妇女署的优先专题是性别暴力、增强经济权能和妇女的政治参与，而且2013年联合国妇女地位委员会的重点是防止暴力侵害妇女和女孩行为，这项工作是及时的。

项目成果

Attitudes towards domestic violence in 49 low- and middle-income countries: A gendered analysis of prevalence and country-level correlates.

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206101
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: PloS one
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Sardinha L;Nájera Catalán HE
• 通讯作者: Nájera Catalán HE