The present study aimed at investigating the relationship
between factors that are inherent in the perceiver, inherent in the
situation / attitudes toward marital violence, attributions of blame in a
violent incident, and judgments on what the victim should do after a
violent incident. Attitudes are assessed via three beliefs that the
violence can be justified, the husband is not responsible from the
violence, and the blame of the violence can be attributed to the wife.
Factors inherent in the perceiver (named individual factors), which are
thought to be important, were defined as patriarchal and traditional
beliefs about marriage and the family, hostile and benevolent sexism,
beliefs about normative approval of violence, and gender. Factors
inherent in the situation (named situational factors) were existence of
(perceived) provocation in a violent incident, severity of the violence,
and employment status of the wife and the husband. 327 METU students (176 female, 151 male) had filled out a
questionnaire, in which a violent episode between a husband and a
wife was described. The scenario contained manipulations on the
situational factors. Other constructs were assessed via Likert type
scales. Analyses revealed that the sample had held negative views of
marital violence, but tend to disagree with immediate precautions like
calling the police after a violent episode. Both situational and societal
factors had differential effects on the dependent measures, patriarchy
and hostile sexism was found to be especially related with the beliefs
about wife beating whereas severity and provocation was strongly
related with the attributions of blame. Existence of children had
decreased the agreement with reactions that would end up the
marriage. Suggestions for future research, and limitations of the study
are discussed in addition to the findings.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604933/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2003 |
| Creators | Ulu, Sinan |
| Contributors | Ugurlu, Nuray Sakalli |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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