Citation

Cheung AK, Choi SY. Violence Against Women 2016; 22(14): 1704-1724.

Affiliation

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801216632615

PMID

26944714

Abstract

Feminist scholars have argued that husband gender traditionalism is one of the root causes of spousal violence against women. Using couple-level data from Hong Kong (N = 871 couples), this article argues that a second mechanism-couple gender value mismatch-also explains husband-to-wife physical assault. Our findings show that a husband's gender traditionalism is positively associated with husband-to-wife physical assault only when the husband is coupled with a wife who has non-traditional gender attitudes. Similarly, egalitarian gender attitudes in wives are positively associated with husband-to-wife physical assault only when a non-traditional wife is coupled with a traditional husband.

Language: en