Saunders D G, Lynch A B, Grayson M, Linz D
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Violence Vict. 1987 Spring;2(1):39-57.
Although attitudes and beliefs about wife beating have been regarded as important for understanding the factors that cause and perpetuate women abuse, researchers have not had adequate instruments to measure these attitudes and beliefs. This article reports on the construction of a scale of attitudes about wife beating and an assessment of the scale's dimensionality and validity. Data were collected from 675 students, 94 residents of a midwestern city, 71 men who batter, and 70 advocates for battered women. Five reliable subscales were derived, and seven tests of validity were supported. Sympathetic attitudes toward battered women were related, as predicted, with liberal views of women's roles and sympathetic attitudes toward rape victims. Abusers and advocates were the most dissimilar in their attitudes. Male and female students also differed significantly. Many of the results are analogous to those in studies of attitudes toward rape. Several possible uses of the measure are described.
尽管关于殴打妻子的态度和观念被认为对于理解导致和延续对妇女虐待行为的因素很重要，但研究人员一直没有足够的工具来衡量这些态度和观念。本文报告了一个关于殴打妻子态度量表的构建以及对该量表维度和效度的评估。数据收集自675名学生、中西部一个城市的94名居民、71名殴打他人的男性以及70名受虐妇女的倡导者。得出了五个可靠的子量表，并支持了七项效度测试。正如预期的那样，对受虐妇女的同情态度与对女性角色的开明观点以及对强奸受害者的同情态度相关。施虐者和倡导者在态度上差异最大。男女学生之间也存在显著差异。许多结果与对强奸态度的研究结果类似。描述了该测量方法的几种可能用途。
