Individual, Community, and Social Network Influences on Beliefs Concerning the Acceptability of Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Senegal

John F Sandberg , Valérie Delaunay (1) , Yacine Boujija , Laetitia Douillot , Simona Bignami , Steven Rytina , Cheikh Sokhna

1 LPED - Laboratoire Population-Environnement-Développement

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pressing international public health and human rights concern. Recent scholarship concerning causes of IPV has focused on the potentially critical influence of social learning and influence in interpersonal interaction through social norms. Using sociocentric network data from all individuals aged 16 years and above in a rural Senegalese village surveyed as part of the Niakhar Social Networks and Health Project (n = 1,274), we estimate a series of nested linear probability models to test the association between characteristics of respondents' social networks and

Keywords: intimate partner violence cultural contexts social learning norms social networks; intimate partner violence; cultural contexts; social learning; norms; social networks

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences

John F Sandberg, Valérie Delaunay, Yacine Boujija, Laetitia Douillot, Simona Bignami, et al.. Individual, Community, and Social Network Influences on Beliefs Concerning the Acceptability of Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Senegal. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2021, 36 (11-12), pp.NP5610 - NP5642. ⟨10.1177/0886260518805778⟩. ⟨hal-04026780⟩