Intimate Partner Violence Against Women and Labor Productivity: The Mediating Role of Morbidity

Asencios-Gonzalez Z.B.; Vara-Horna A.A.; Brad McBride J. · Violence Against Women (2024) · DOI: 10.1177/10778012231163572

Resumen

This study determines that morbidity presents a mediating impact between intimate partner violence against women and labor productivity in terms of absenteeism and presenteeism. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used on a nationwide representative sample of 357 female owners of micro-firms in Peru. The resulting data reveals that morbidity is a mediating variable between intimate partner violence against women and absenteeism (β = 0.213; p <.001), as well as between intimate partner violence against women and presenteeism (β = 0.336; p <.001). This finding allows us to understand how such intimate partner violence against women negatively affects the workplace productivity in the context of a micro-enterprise, a key element in many economies across the world. © The Author(s) 2023.

Instituciones: Universidad de San Martín de Porres