Attitudes toward domestic violence : Race and gender issues

Previous research has not extensively addressed how attitudes toward domestic violence vary between ethnicities and genders. This experiment utilized domestic violence scenarios with the husband's and wife's ethnicities varied to form four combinations of European-American and African-Amer...

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Published in:Sex roles 1999-02, Vol.40 (3-4), p.227-247
Main Authors: LOCKE, L. M, RICHMAN, C. L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Attitude towards mental illness
Attitudes
Attribution Theory
Battered Women
Behavior Theories
Beliefs
Biological and medical sciences
Domestic violence
Ethnicity
Family Violence
Females
Feminism
Gender aspects
Gender Discrimination
Gender Issues
Intermarriage
Males
Medical sciences
Mythology
Negative Attitudes
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Race
Racial aspects
Racial Differences
Resistance (Psychology)
Sex Differences
Sexes
Social Attitudes
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
USA
Victims of Crime
Violence
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Summary:Previous research has not extensively addressed how attitudes toward domestic violence vary between ethnicities and genders. This experiment utilized domestic violence scenarios with the husband's and wife's ethnicities varied to form four combinations of European-American and African-American couples.
ISSN:0360-0025
1573-2762
DOI:10.1023/A:1018898921560