Marital Chains Or Dating Freedom? Unraveling Intimate Partner Violence Acceptance Among Urban Indian Women

Author(s)	Gaganpreet Kaur
Country	India
Abstract	Acceptability of intimate partner violence (IPV) among women varies by relationship status and life stage, yet comparative studies between dating and married women remain limited in urban Indian contexts. This cross-sectional study compared A-IPVAW acceptability between dating women (18-25 years) and married women (38-48 years) using purposive/convenience sampling (N=120) from urban English-fluent populations. The 20-item A-IPVAW scale (Martín-Fernández et al., 2018) assessed physical, verbal, and emotional violence tolerance on a 5-point Likert scale. Independent-samples t-test revealed married women exhibited significantly higher IPV acceptability than dating women.
Keywords	acceptance, intimate partner violence, married women, dating women
Field	Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-12-25
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.64558

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