Structural Context and the Role of Positive Deviance From Community Norms in Shaping Risk for Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in 32 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

N. Metheny; R. Stephenson

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Structural Context and the Role of Positive Deviance From Community Norms in Shaping Risk for Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in 32 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

N. Metheny and R. Stephenson

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520927504

Abstract

cultural contexts

domestic violence and cultural contexts < domestic violence

sexual assault

adult

article

controlled study

empowerment

female

fertility

gender

health survey

human

male

middle income country

organization

partner violence

prevalence

social capital

social norm

structure activity relation

Demography

Community norms provide social scripts and pathways to accruing social capital that can alter a woman’s risk of experiencing sexual intimate partner violence (IPV). These norms are in turn influenced by the structural environment in which they exist. Missing from the literature is an understanding of how an individual’s departure from community norms—positive deviance—influences the risk of sexual IPV and how this effect may vary across structural environments. Demographic and Health Survey data from 32 low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) were stratified into six structural environments by two fundamental structural factors: level of gender inequality and prevalence of sexual IPV. To examine how transcending community norms shape the odds of reporting sexual IPV across environments, six identical multilevel models were fit including statistical deviation from 13 community norms as key covariates. Positive deviance from community norms is associated with both increased and decreased odds of reporting sexual IPV and the nature of these relationships vary by structural environment. Positive deviance had a greater effect on reporting sexual IPV in highly unequal societies. Positive deviance from fertility preferences and controlling behavior was associated with increased odds of sexual IPV across contexts. The accrual of social capital and differences in female autonomy across environments may be two ways positive deviance alters sexual IPV risk. A better understanding of how the salience of community norms varies by structural environment and how transcending these norms shapes the risk for sexual violence may help highlight pathways for interventions to change restrictive social norms and increase female empowerment without increasing the risk of sexual IPV. © The Author(s) 2020.

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Title: Structural Context and the Role of Positive Deviance From Community Norms in Shaping Risk for Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in 32 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Creators: N. Metheny - University of Miami
R. Stephenson - University of Michigan
Publication Details: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
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