Researching Intimate Partner Violence Against Women (IPVAW): Overcoming Gender Blindness by Improving Methodology in Compliance with Measurement Standards

Intimate Partner Violence Against Women (IPVAW) has been defined as a violation of human rights and a serious public health problem rooted in social inequality between women and men. Nevertheless, a significant amount of scientific literature on the topic of IPVAW continues to exclude the gender per...

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Published inJournal of family violence Vol. 38; no. 6; pp. 1043 - 1054
Main Authors Sánchez-Prada, Andrés, Delgado-Álvarez, Carmen, Bosch-Fiol, Esperanza, Ferrer-Pérez, Victoria A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.08.2023
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Blindness
Clinical Psychology
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Domestic violence
Family violence
Gender
Gender studies
Gender-based violence
Health disparities
Health problems
Human rights
Interdisciplinary aspects
Intimate partner violence
Law and Psychology
Measurement
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mixed methods research
Psychotherapy and Counseling
Public health
Quality of Life Research
Research design
Review Article
Social inequality
Social science research
Violence against women
Women
Spain
Gender blindness
Fairness in research
Measurement standards
Validity evidence
Intimate partner violence against women
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Summary:Intimate Partner Violence Against Women (IPVAW) has been defined as a violation of human rights and a serious public health problem rooted in social inequality between women and men. Nevertheless, a significant amount of scientific literature on the topic of IPVAW continues to exclude the gender perspective in both research design and the interpretation of results, despite its conceptual and explanatory relevance. This paper considers certain gender-blind practices in the research on IPVAW. Based on this analysis, we propose explicitly stating the theoretical assumptions inherent in the definition of the construct and clarifying the intended interpretation for measures, so that they can be incorporated into the analysis of validity, and we argue in favor of the need for interdisciplinary studies based on multicausal explanatory models, which incorporate the category gender as a transversal explanatory factor of this type of violence, as well as multi-method approaches, with the aim of overcoming issues of construct underrepresentation and construct-irrelevant variance.
ISSN:0885-7482
1573-2851
DOI:10.1007/s10896-023-00577-9