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The effect of university students’ violence tendency on their attitude towards domestic violence and the factors affecting domestic violence attitudes

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the tendency of violence and the factors affecting their attitudes towards domestic violence in university students studying health sciences. METHODS: The research was conducted with a total of 318 voluntary students studying in the senior year of...

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Autores principales: Yagiz, Ruken, Sevil, Ümran, Guner, Özlem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31793913
http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v12i1.1224
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author Yagiz, Ruken
Sevil, Ümran
Guner, Özlem
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Guner, Özlem
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description BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the tendency of violence and the factors affecting their attitudes towards domestic violence in university students studying health sciences. METHODS: The research was conducted with a total of 318 voluntary students studying in the senior year of nursing department in Faculty of Nursing, Ege University, Turkey and bearing the appropriate criteria for the participation and data were collected in the period June-July 2017. “Personal Information Form”, “Violence Tendency Scale (VTS)” and “Domestic Violence Attitude Scale (DVAS)” developed by the researchers have been used in data collection. RESULTS: The research was conducted with a total of 318 students with average age of 22.41±1.49. Av-erage VTS scores of the students were found to be 28.13±6.28. The factor effective on violence tendency has been determined to be the student’s sex. DVAS of the students has been found to be 19.90±6.76. CONCLUSIONS: Violence phenomenon directed to youth was conducted on senior university students being a more developed group socially. However, young people’s exposure to violence was found high (42.8%). Nevertheless, their scores on violence tendencies and domestic violence attitude were ascertained low.
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spelling pubmed-70016052020-02-10 The effect of university students’ violence tendency on their attitude towards domestic violence and the factors affecting domestic violence attitudes Yagiz, Ruken Sevil, Ümran Guner, Özlem J Inj Violence Res Injury &Violence BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the tendency of violence and the factors affecting their attitudes towards domestic violence in university students studying health sciences. METHODS: The research was conducted with a total of 318 voluntary students studying in the senior year of nursing department in Faculty of Nursing, Ege University, Turkey and bearing the appropriate criteria for the participation and data were collected in the period June-July 2017. “Personal Information Form”, “Violence Tendency Scale (VTS)” and “Domestic Violence Attitude Scale (DVAS)” developed by the researchers have been used in data collection. RESULTS: The research was conducted with a total of 318 students with average age of 22.41±1.49. Av-erage VTS scores of the students were found to be 28.13±6.28. The factor effective on violence tendency has been determined to be the student’s sex. DVAS of the students has been found to be 19.90±6.76. CONCLUSIONS: Violence phenomenon directed to youth was conducted on senior university students being a more developed group socially. However, young people’s exposure to violence was found high (42.8%). Nevertheless, their scores on violence tendencies and domestic violence attitude were ascertained low. Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7001605/ /pubmed/31793913 http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v12i1.1224 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yagiz, Ruken
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Guner, Özlem
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title The effect of university students’ violence tendency on their attitude towards domestic violence and the factors affecting domestic violence attitudes
title_full The effect of university students’ violence tendency on their attitude towards domestic violence and the factors affecting domestic violence attitudes
title_fullStr The effect of university students’ violence tendency on their attitude towards domestic violence and the factors affecting domestic violence attitudes
title_full_unstemmed The effect of university students’ violence tendency on their attitude towards domestic violence and the factors affecting domestic violence attitudes
title_short The effect of university students’ violence tendency on their attitude towards domestic violence and the factors affecting domestic violence attitudes
title_sort effect of university students’ violence tendency on their attitude towards domestic violence and the factors affecting domestic violence attitudes
topic Injury &Violence
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31793913
http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v12i1.1224
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