Year: 2008
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between just-world beliefs, attitudes toward women, blame attribution, the personal abuse history of the participants, demographic variables, and counselor attitudes toward battered women.The independent variables in this study were just-world beliefs, attitudes toward women, blame attribution, and the personal abuse history, age, and gender of the participants.The dependent variable in this study was counselor attitudes toward battered women.A sample of 478 professional members of the American Counseling Association completed the survey instrument.A non-hierarchical multiple regression analysis was conducted to answer the following research question: "To what extent are just-world beliefs, attitudes toward women, blame attribution, personal abuse history, and demographic variables related to counselor attitudes toward battered women?" Results revealed blame attribution, attitudes toward women, age, personal abuse history, gender, and just-world beliefs combined to significantly predict counselor attitudes toward battered women.The independent variables combined explained 11.4% of the variance in the dependent variable.Blame attribution alone explained 9.9% of the variance and the other variables alone each explained less than 1% of the variance.Participants in this study who held more traditional attitudes toward women tended to be more accepting of domestic violence.In addition, participants in this study
Author: Mary Jane Preece
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W172589883