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Partner Abuse 1 Running head: PERCEPTIONS OF INTIMATE PARTNER ABUSE A Consideration of Gender in University Students’ Perceptions of Intimate Partner Abuse
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Cormier, Nicole Woodworth, Mike |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Forty-one men and 67 women undergraduate students from the University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus were presented with vignettes depicting a physical abuse scenario. The vignettes were identical, except that gender pronouns were manipulated to portray all possible gender combinations of victim and perpetrator (e.g., male-female, male-male, female-male, and female-female). After reading each vignette, participants rated them by responding to a number of questions designed to measure perceptions of the depicted abuse (Harris & Cook, 1994), as well as ranking the four vignettes in order of severity. A mixed factorial design was utilized to examine potential differences in perception according to victim and perpetrator gender, and between men and women participants. Analyses supported the prediction that participants' ratings of the vignettes would indicate an overall view that female perpetrators are not as capable of inflicting harm as male perpetrators. The prediction that women would react more strongly to any battering incident than men was partially supported. A third hypothesis expecting that men would show greater reluctance in reporting vignette situations to the police was not supported. It is hoped the proposed study will enhance academic and social understanding of partner abuse, and provoke increased research and education concerning the topic. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/52966/1.0086059/1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
