Emel Bahadır Yılmaz, Fatma Öz

Assessing the Relation Between Attitudes Towards Gender Roles and Domestic Violence of Nursing And Paramedic Students

Yayın Aralığı: 4
Başlangıç: 2011
Yayıncı: Marmara Üniversitesi

Objective: The purpose of study was to assess the relation between attitudestowards gender roles and domestic violence of nursing and paramedic students in acountry in the north east of our country.Methodology: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was used. The study populationconsisted of 205 nursing and paramedic students in 2014-2015 academic year.The sample consisted of 160 students. Data were collected with the “DemographicInformation Form”, “The Attitudes Towards Domestic Violence Scale (ATDV)”, and“The Gender Roles Attitudes Scale (GRA)”. Data were analysed using descriptivestatistics such as number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, median, 25thquarter and 75th quarter, Spearman’s correlation analysis, and Mann Whitney U test.Results: The students had equalitarian gender roles and positive attitudes towardsdomestic violence. Spearman’s correlation analysis indicated a positive moderaterelation between the attitudes towards gender roles and domestic violence of thestudents (r=0.670, p<0.05). Female students had more egalitarian attitudes towardsgender roles and more positive attitudes towards domestic violence than malestudents (p<0.05).Discussion: In conclusion, there is the relation between attitudes towards genderroles and domestic violence of nursing and paramedic students. In order that studentscan have positive attitudes towards domestic violence, inclusion of gender equalitycourse in the curriculum has been recommended.

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