This study was conducted for the purpose of identifying the
factors that contribute to spousal physical violence in the Philippines
using binary logistic regression. The variables are the demographic
characteristics, history of violence and the marital union profile of the
couple. This paper used National Demographic and Health Survey
2013 as a research instrument. This consists of 7,182 ever-married
women (weighted). Two separate regression analyses were constructed
to model spousal physical violence against men and against women. Of
the seventeen variables, only four variables for spousal physical
violence against women are found to be significant at 0.01 level of
significance with 0.6578 goodness-of-fit. The significant variables are
age of the woman at first cohabitation, parental violence, frequency of
husband’s drunkenness and the length of cohabitation of the couple.
For spousal physical violence against men, five variables are
significant with 0.8673 goodness-of-fit, namely; age of the woman, if
the woman ever experienced physical violence from her
husband/partner, parental violence, if her father ever beaten her
mother and her husband’s frequency of drunkenness.