Date of Award
10-19-2015
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Psychology
Keywords
attitudes, attributions, gender, helping, social cognition
Supervisor
Fritz, Patti
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
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Abstract
The current study investigated how young adults (i.e., helpers) who are approached by a dating aggression (DA) victim respond to the victim. It was hypothesized that most helpers would give helpful responses, that women would give more helpful responses than men, that female victims would receive more helpful responses than male victims, and that helpers’ attributions and attitudes would predict type of responses given. Students (N = 162) completed online measures of demographics, hostile attribution bias, attitudes about gender roles, attitudes about DA, and questions assessing help-giving experiences. Helpers gave more helpful than unhelpful responses, men gave more unhelpful responses than women, and there was no difference between responses given to male and female victims. Condemning attitudes about DA and traditional gender role attitudes predicted more unhelpful responses and increased hostile attribution was associated with encouraging the victim to seek help. These findings have implications for helping victims of DA.
Recommended Citation
Glasgow, Jillian Catherine Siobhan, "How Can I Help? How Emerging Adults Respond to Victims of Dating Aggression" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5469.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5469