Olayanju, LO and Amin, SA and Mustafa, M and Naguib, RNG and Nguyen, TQ (2014) Attitudes, Perceptions and Intimate Partner Violence: A Study of the Nigerian Context. In: 7th IEEE International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment and Management, Puerto Princesa, Philippines.
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Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health issue affecting many women around the world. It is a topic that has attracted a great deal of research over the years, but the dynamics of the issue in some parts of the world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, is still very vague, necessitating more research in the region. This study uses a cross-sectional population-based survey to explore attitudes of women towards gender roles in a Sub-Saharan African country – Nigeria, as this is one of the factors that is likely to influence IPV occurrence. The results show that attitudes towards gender roles in Nigeria are more supportive of male dominance and women being subservient to their husband/partner, and also suggest that addressing such attitudes may be an important strand of action in tackling IPV issues in the country.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | ISSN: 1908-6180 (c) 2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works." |
| Keywords: | Gender Roles; Violence; Attitudes; Women |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | Raouf Naguib |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2016 13:30 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jun 2016 13:30 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/1411 |
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