title: [Women abuse: beliefs and attitudes in university students].
abstract: Beliefs and attitudes positives toward domestic violence are one of the risks factors for his occurrence. Among his most studied predictors are gender, gender role attitudes or educational level. In this paper, domestic violence beliefs and attitudes are analysed in 1395 university students. "Inventory of Thoughts Distorted on the Woman and the Violence" (Echeburúa and Fernández-Montalvo, 1997) and "Inventory of Social Desirability" by Crowne and Marlowe (Form C, Reynolds, 1982) were administrated. Boys and students without specific formation about this subject show more positive beliefs and attitudes toward domestic violence. Though social desirability introduces some limitations, these results suggest the importance of incorporating matters on this subject in the curriculum of university students in general and, especially, in future professional that will work with these groups.
authors.affiliation: Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. victoria.ferrer@uib.es
authors.forename: Victoria A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Ferrer Pérez
authors.forename: Esperanza
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bosch Fiol
authors.forename: M Carmen
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Ramis Palmer
authors.forename: Gema
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Torres Espinosa
authors.forename: Capilla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Navarro Guzmán
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D018585:Battered Women; D003469:Culture; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities