Nunes Kevin L, Hermann Chantal A, Maimone Sacha, Woods Mandie
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
J Interpers Violence. 2015 May;30(8):1322-47. doi: 10.1177/0886260514540329. Epub 2014 Jul 4.
The purpose of the current study was to explore whether measures such as the Violence Scale of the Revised Measures of Criminal Attitudes and Associates (MCAA-R-V) and the Criminal Attitudes to Violence Scale (CAVS) assess attitudes toward violence (i.e., evaluation of violence) and whether attitudes and the cognitions assessed by the MCAA-R-V and CAVS are independently associated with violent behavior. Participants (568 undergraduate students) completed the MCAA-R-V and the CAVS, as well as measures of evaluation of violence, evaluation of violent people, identification of self as violent, and past violent behavior. Exploratory factor analyses revealed that the MCAA-R-V and CAVS items formed correlated but distinct factors from the items of the evaluation of violence, evaluation of violent people, and identification of self as violent scales. Regression analyses indicated that evaluation of violence and identification of self as violent correlated with violent behavior independently of the MCAA-R-V and CAVS. Our results suggest that attitudes toward violence may be distinct from other cognitions often referred to as "attitudes" in the criminological literature, and both attitudes and these other cognitions may be relevant for understanding violent behavior.
本研究的目的是探讨诸如《修订版犯罪态度及相关因素量表》（MCAA-R-V）中的暴力量表和《对暴力的犯罪态度量表》（CAVS）等测量工具是否能评估对暴力的态度（即对暴力的评价），以及MCAA-R-V和CAVS所评估的态度与认知是否与暴力行为独立相关。参与者（568名本科生）完成了MCAA-R-V、CAVS，以及对暴力的评价、对暴力者的评价、将自己视为暴力者的自我认知和过去暴力行为的测量。探索性因素分析表明，MCAA-R-V和CAVS的项目与对暴力的评价、对暴力者的评价以及将自己视为暴力者量表的项目形成了相关但不同的因素。回归分析表明，对暴力的评价和将自己视为暴力者与暴力行为的相关性独立于MCAA-R-V和CAVS。我们的研究结果表明，对暴力的态度可能与犯罪学文献中常被称为“态度”的其他认知不同，态度和这些其他认知可能都与理解暴力行为相关。
