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Exploring Couple Attributes and Attitudes and Marital Violence in Vietnam

Brown University, Providence, RI

Sidney Ruth Schuler

Academy for Educational Development, Washington, DC

Bui Thi Thanh Mai

Pham Vu Thien

Tran Hung Minh

Using a couple-centered approach, this study focuses on the relative attributes and attitudes of spouses as predictors of marital violence. Analysis of data from Vietnam showed that 37% of married women have ever been hit by their husbands. Regression results found that husbands with lower resources or status than their wives were more likely to have abused. Results also found that the association between husbands' gender attitudes and marital violence depends on the level of equity of wives'attitudes. The decline in violence among couples in which husbands expressed gender equitable attitudes was greater when wives also expressed equitable attitudes.

Key Words: domestic violence • gender attitudes • Vietnam

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