title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Kansas State University, School of Family Studies and Human Services, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA. jra@ksu.edu
authors.forename: Jared R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Wen Chi
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Matthew D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Sarah E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Lyon
authors.forename: Chih-Yuan Steven
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Fuming
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Gary C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Ratcliffe
authors.forename: F Ryan
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Peterson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003380:Courtship; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult