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. 2016 Dec;31(20):3307-3331.
doi: 10.1177/0886260515584350. Epub 2015 May 6.

Economic Coercion and Partner Violence Against Wives in Vietnam: A Unified Framework?

Kathryn Mary Yount  1 , Kathleen Helen Krause  2 , Kristin E VanderEnde  2
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Economic Coercion and Partner Violence Against Wives in Vietnam: A Unified Framework?

Kathryn Mary Yount et al. J Interpers Violence. 2016 Dec.

Abstract

Economic coercion refers to behaviors that control an intimate partner's ability to acquire, use, and maintain economic resources. Little is known about economic coercion in Vietnam. Using survey responses from 533 married women ages 18 to 50 years, we estimated multinomial logistic regression models to compare the determinants of exposure to economic coercion only, co-occurring economic coercion, and any psychological, physical, or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV), and any IPV only, relative to no exposure. Women who, in their childhood, witnessed physical IPV against their mother had higher odds of exposure to co-occurring economic coercion and any IPV as an adult (adjusted Odds Ratio = 3.54, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [1.84, 6.83]) and any IPV only (adjust Odds Ratio = 1.75, 95% CI = [1.00, 3.06]), but not economic coercion only. Women who experienced violence as a child had higher odds of exposure to any IPV only (adjusted Odds Ratio = 1.63, 95% CI = [1.04, 2.56]) but not economic coercion only. Women with more schooling had higher odds of exposure to economic coercion only (adjusted Odds Ratio = 1.17, 95% CI = [1.03, 1.33]) but not other forms of violence. Overall, the estimates from the three models differed significantly. Thus, the determinants of economic coercion and common forms of IPV may differ. More research should focus on men's perpetration of economic coercion.

Keywords: Vietnam; economic coercion; intimate partner violence; resources; social learning; status conflict.

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