Table 3. National-level economic, social and political predictors of women’s and men’s acceptance of domestic violence: Multiple linear regression.
| Women | Men | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | |
| Multidimensional deprivation score | .202* .019 .386 |
-.072 -.290 .146 |
-.008 -.113 .098 |
-.085 -.227 .058 |
| Inequality Index (Gini) | -.013 (-.029 .003) |
-.009 (-.023 .005) |
-.008 (-.017 .001) |
-.007 (-.016 .002) |
| Women’s economic rights | -.351* (-.657 -.048) |
-.335** (-.597 -.074) |
-.177* (-.352 -.002) |
-.173* (-.344 -.001) |
| Existence and quality of DV law | .042 (-.041 .124) |
.016 (-.056 .088) |
.021 (-.026 -.068) |
.013 (-.034 .061) |
| Democracy Score | -.147 (-.602 .308) |
-.275 (-.671 .122) |
-.262* (-.0523 -.001) |
-.298* (-.558 -.038) |
| Women’s political rights | -.645 (-1.390 .099) |
-.406 (-1.058 .246) |
-.169 (-.596 .258) |
-.102 (-.529 .325) |
| Seats held by women in national parliament | .028* (.007 .048) |
.025** (.009 .194) |
.007 (-.005 .018) |
.006 (-.006 .018) |
| Political conflict | .069 (-.025 .190) |
.101** (.008 .043) |
.073* (.011 .134) |
.078* (.017 .139) |
| Female literacy rates | - | -1.760*** (-2.727 -.793) |
- | -.495 (-1.129 .139) |
| BIC used by Stata | 99.199 | 88.113 | 50.277 | 50.920 |
| Adjusted R squared | .456 | .600 | .385 | .411 |
NOTE: The Attitudes to DV scale is the outcome variable; The unstandardised beta coefficients and the 95% CI are presented.
***p < .001
** p < .01
*p < .05;
Based on significance and model fit female primary, secondary and tertiary education, and female labour force participation were not included in final model.