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This study examined a hypothesised relationship between a couple’s behavioural and cultural attitudes and the severity of physical partner violence among the ever-married women (aged 15–49) who inhabited rural parts of Dakshin Dinajpur district, West Bengal, India.

A total of 182 sample women were included in the final causal path model which was one form of advanced Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approach. This study also accounted for some latent construction models based on some allied indicator variables before establishing the final causal path model. Direct effects, indirect effects (mediation effect) in connection with direct effects and total effects of the exposures were estimated to test the hypothesised model.

Results revealed that wives’ violence supporting attitudes (standardise β, 0.10; P < 0.001), partner’s domineering attitudes (standardise β, 0.29; P < 0.001 …