Citation

Emery CR, Thapa S, Wu S. Violence Against Women 2017; 23(4): 482-502.

Affiliation

Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea swu.korea@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801216644993

PMID

27153860

Abstract

We argue that the concept of power has been inadvertently sidelined in recent theory and research on husband violence. Three types of relationship power may matter with respect to husband violence: attempted power, actual power, and achieved power. Analyses of a randomly selected representative sample of 270 married or partnered women in Kathmandu showed that actual power was related to husband violence prevalence, severity, and injury. Achieved power was related to husband violence prevalence and severity, and attempted power was related to husband violence injury. Implications are discussed.

© The Author(s) 2016.

Language: en