Abstract
Research has mainly studied women’s empowerment assessing personal (e.g., self-esteem) or relational (e.g., decision-making) empowerment indicators. Women are not isolated individuals; they are embedded in social relationships. This is especially relevant in more collectivist societies. The current research provides a relational perspective on how husbands may hamper women’s empowerment by inflicting intimate partner violence (IPV) assessing women’s self-reported experience. We tested the link between self-esteem and experienced IPV on financial intra-household decision-making power among women entrepreneurs (N = 1,347) in Northern Vietnam, a collectivistic society undergoing economic development. We report two measurement points. As expected, self-esteem (and not IPV) was positively related to more power in intra-household decision-making on small expenditures, which are traditionally taken by women. However, IPV (and not self-esteem) was related to less decision-making power on larger expenditures, traditionally a domain outside women’s power. We test and discuss the directionality of the effects and stress the importance of considering women’s close relationship when investigating signs of women’s empowerment.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e12348 |
| Journal | British journal of social psychology |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 30 Oct 2019 |
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Keywords
- empowerment
- financial intra-household decision-making
- gender inequity
- intimate partner violence
- self-esteem
- women
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A relational perspective on women’s empowerment: Intimate partner violence and empowerment among women entrepreneurs in Vietnam. / Huis, Marloes Anne; Hansen, Nina; Lensink, Robert; Otten, Sabine.
In: British journal of social psychology, 30.10.2019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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T1 - A relational perspective on women’s empowerment: Intimate partner violence and empowerment among women entrepreneurs in Vietnam
AU - Huis, Marloes Anne
AU - Hansen, Nina
AU - Lensink, Robert
AU - Otten, Sabine
PY - 2019/10/30
Y1 - 2019/10/30
N2 - Research has mainly studied women’s empowerment assessing personal (e.g., self-esteem) or relational (e.g., decision-making) empowerment indicators. Women are not isolated individuals; they are embedded in social relationships. This is especially relevant in more collectivist societies. The current research provides a relational perspective on how husbands may hamper women’s empowerment by inflicting intimate partner violence (IPV) assessing women’s self-reported experience. We tested the link between self-esteem and experienced IPV on financial intra-household decision-making power among women entrepreneurs (N = 1,347) in Northern Vietnam, a collectivistic society undergoing economic development. We report two measurement points. As expected, self-esteem (and not IPV) was positively related to more power in intra-household decision-making on small expenditures, which are traditionally taken by women. However, IPV (and not self-esteem) was related to less decision-making power on larger expenditures, traditionally a domain outside women’s power. We test and discuss the directionality of the effects and stress the importance of considering women’s close relationship when investigating signs of women’s empowerment.
AB - Research has mainly studied women’s empowerment assessing personal (e.g., self-esteem) or relational (e.g., decision-making) empowerment indicators. Women are not isolated individuals; they are embedded in social relationships. This is especially relevant in more collectivist societies. The current research provides a relational perspective on how husbands may hamper women’s empowerment by inflicting intimate partner violence (IPV) assessing women’s self-reported experience. We tested the link between self-esteem and experienced IPV on financial intra-household decision-making power among women entrepreneurs (N = 1,347) in Northern Vietnam, a collectivistic society undergoing economic development. We report two measurement points. As expected, self-esteem (and not IPV) was positively related to more power in intra-household decision-making on small expenditures, which are traditionally taken by women. However, IPV (and not self-esteem) was related to less decision-making power on larger expenditures, traditionally a domain outside women’s power. We test and discuss the directionality of the effects and stress the importance of considering women’s close relationship when investigating signs of women’s empowerment.
KW - empowerment
KW - financial intra-household decision-making
KW - gender inequity
KW - intimate partner violence
KW - self-esteem
KW - women
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DO - 10.1111/bjso.12348
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JO - British journal of social psychology
JF - British journal of social psychology
SN - 0144-6665
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