Attitudes Toward Dating Violence Among College Students in Mainland China: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

This study investigates attitudes toward psychological and physical dating violence among college students in mainland China (n = 245). The results of this study indicate that among our sample of college students in mainland China, men and women were relatively similar in their attitudes toward male perpetrated and female perpetrated physical dating violence and female perpetrated psychological dating violence. As has been found in previous research, men and women in our sample were more accepting of female perpetrated physical and psychological dating violence than male perpetrated physical and psychological dating violence. Finally, among several variables that predicted dating violence attitudes, shame emerged as a potentially important variable to include in future studies on dating violence in Chinese populations.

Factors influencing attitude toward intimate partner violence

“…However, it was hard to reach such a conclusion according to the results of the surveys of university students. Studies showed no differences of attitude between female university students and their male opponents (Anderson et al, 2011), or if any, attitude of female were even better than that of male (Merten & Williams, 2009;Sakall, 2001).…”

“…Studies had connected attitude toward IPV with education (Antai & Antai, 2008;Boyle, Georgiades, Cullen, & Racine, 2009;Dalal et al, 2012;Faramarzi, Esmailzadeh, & Mosavi, 2005;Hindin, 2003;Rani & Bonu, 2009;Uthman et al, 2009;Waltermaurer et al, 2013), gender (Anderson et al, 2011;Bryant & Spencer, 2003;Flood & Pease, 2009;Koenig et al, 2003;Merten & Williams, 2009;Rani & Bonu, 2009;Sakall, 2001;Uthman et al, 2009;Uthman et al, 2010), age (Hindin, 2003;Khawaja et al, 2007;Koenig et al, 2003;Rani & Bonu, 2009), residence (Antai & Antai, 2009;Boyle et al, 2009;Dalal et al, 2012;Hindin, 2003;Uthman et al, 2009;Waltermaurer et al, 2013), patriarchal gender role (Haj-Yahia, 2003;Haj-Yahia & Uysal, 2008;McDermott & Lopez, 2013;Sakall, 2001;Yoshihama, Blazevski, & Bybee, 2014), occupation (Dalal et al, 2012;Faramarzi et al, 2005;Hindin, 2003;Khawaja et al, 2007;Rani & Bonu, 2009;Waltermaurer et al, 2013), economic status (Antai & Antai, 2008;…”

“…Of the 4302 women aged 15 to 44 in the study, 82.7% of the respondents had finished secondary school, with more than 50% having completed university or technical college (Waltermaurer et al, 2013). In addition, studies of college students' attitude reveled that female student's attitude toward IPV was at least the same as that of their male opponents (Anderson et al, 2011), sometimes even better than that of male students (Merten & Williams, 2009;Sakall, 2001).…”

Prevalence and Correlates of Psychological Aggression in Male and Female College Students From Mainland China: An Exploratory Study

“…One study has explored attitudinal acceptance of psychological aggression in Mainland China. Female-perpetrated psychological aggression was significantly more accepted than male-perpetrated, but each form of psychological aggression had moderate levels of acceptance among Mainland Chinese college students (Anderson et al, 2011). In addition, being further along in schooling, holding traditional gender role attitudes, and higher levels of shame all predicted attitudinal acceptance of psychological aggression within a dating relationship.…”

The quieter side of Chinese feminism: The feminist phenomenology of Li Yu's films

“…Anderson et al (2011) studied views of Mainland Chinese college students (both male and female) to determine attitudes towards the use of physical and psychological date violence. Shame was an important factor in male attitudes about the use of physical or psychological date violence, which reinforced Xu et al's (2005) research.…”