Men’s perpetration of violence against their female partners is widely recognized as a serious social problem. Yet research on intimate partner violence (IPV) has been primarily focused on women’s exposure and not on men’s perpetration. This paper fills this gap and explores the intensity of and the factors associated with men’s perpetration of violence against their intimate partners. In 2013, a cross-sectional survey with multistage sampling approach was conducted in seven states of India, including 9,135 men. The study adapted the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) tool. This paper analyses data from 6,081 currently married men included in the survey. Multinomial and logistic regression were applied to determine factors associated with the intensity of physical violence perpetration in the men’s lifetime and perpetration in the past 12 months, respectively. Over one-third of the men reported ever perpetrating physical violence (15% often and 19% moderately), and almost half of them (48%) had perpetrated physical violence in the past 12 months. Education, substance abuse, and experience of violence (including bullying) during childhood stand out as the most important factors associated with violence perpetration among men.

男性对其女性伴侣的暴力行为被广泛认为是一个严重的社会问题。然而，对亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 的研究主要集中在女性的暴露而不是男性的犯罪上。本文填补了这一空白，并探讨了男性对其亲密伴侣实施暴力的强度和相关因素。2013 年，在印度的七个邦进行了一项采用多阶段抽样方法的横断面调查，包括 9,135 名男性。该研究采用了国际男性和性别平等调查 (IMAGES) 工具。本文分析了调查中包括的 6,081 名目前已婚男性的数据。分别应用多项式和逻辑回归来确定与男性一生中和过去 12 个月内实施的身体暴力行为强度相关的因素。超过三分之一的男性报告曾遭受过身体暴力（15% 经常和 19% 中等程度），其中近一半 (48%) 在过去 12 个月内实施过身体暴力。童年时期的教育、药物滥用和暴力（包括欺凌）经历是与男性暴力行为相关的最重要因素。