Religion and intimate partner violence in Chile: Macro- and micro-level influences |
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Authors: | Evelyn L Lehrer Vivian L Lehrer Ramona C Krauss |
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Institution: | aEconomics Department, m/c 144, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7121, USA;bIZA, Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany;cDomestic Violence Project, Urban Justice Center, New York, USA |
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Abstract: | The Catholic Church has had a strong influence on the Chilean legal and social landscape in ways that have adversely affected victims of intimate partner violence; e.g., it succeeded until just five years ago in blocking efforts to legalize divorce. At the same time, quantitative studies based on survey data from the United States and other countries show a generally favorable influence of religion on health and many other domains of life, including intimate partner violence. The present study explores the puzzle posed by these seemingly opposing macro- and micro-level forces. Results based on data from the 2005 Survey of Student Well-Being, a questionnaire on gender-based violence administered to students at a large public university in Chile, show that moderate or low levels of religiosity are associated with reduced vulnerability to violence, but high levels are not. This non-linearity sheds light on the puzzle, because at the macro level the religious views shaping Chile’s legal and social environment have been extreme. |
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Keywords: | Religion Dating violence Intimate partner violence |
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