Men’s education and intimate partner violence—Beyond the victim-oriented perspective: Evidence from demographic and health surveys in Central Africa
Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene,
Bright Opoku Ahinkorah,
Dickson Abanimi Amugsi
Abstract:Background
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has increasingly received attention in the last three decades. However, IPV-related studies in both high- and low- and middle-income countries adopted a victim-oriented perspective in which men are perpetrators and women, the victims. Using socio-cultural and resource theories as guiding frameworks, this paper assessed the associations between men’s education and IPV in Central Africa, using nationally representative data of married and cohabiting women of reproductiv… Show more
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