Relation between the attitudes of nursing students on gender equality and dating violence

Aim: This study was conducted for the purpose of identifying the relation between the attitudes of nursing undergraduate studentson gender equality and dating violence.Material and Methods: The study was conducted with 310 undergraduate students who studied in the nursing department of auniversity. The Personal Information Form, Gender Equality Scale (GES) and Dating Violence Scale (DVS) were used as the datacollection tools. Shapiro-Wilk test, histogram, Q-Q graphics, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis and Spearman’s correlation test wereused in data analysis. Before beginning the research, ethical approval was obtained from the Ethical Committee.Results: Regarding dating relations of nursing students; 39.4% stated about their dating relationships that they had a datingrelationship, 78.0% stated that they continued their relationship “orderly/serious”, 7.3% stated that they “committed violence” intheir dating relationship, and 2.4% stated that they “were exposed to violence” in their dating relationship. It was identifid that thestudents had the lowest score from the emotional and economical sub-scale and that the students did not generally support thedating violence. A positive and moderate relation was determined between the GES and the DVS scores of the nursing students(p

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