The Attitudes toward Rape Victims Scale: Construction, Validation, and Cross-Cultural Applicability.

Ward, Colleen

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ERIC Number: EJ379672

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Publication Date: 1988

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The Attitudes toward Rape Victims Scale: Construction, Validation, and Cross-Cultural Applicability.

Ward, Colleen

Psychology of Women Quarterly, v12 n2 p127-46 Jun 1988

Constructed 25-item Attitudes toward Rape Victims Scale (ARVS) which emphasized victim blame, credibility, deservingness, denigration, and trivialization. Results from administration of ARVS to university students, social workers, psychologists, physicians, lawyers, and police officers in Singapore, and to university students in the United States confirmed ARVS's reliability, validity, and cross-cultural suitability. (Author/NB)

Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Culture Fair Tests, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Lawyers, Physicians, Police, Psychologists, Rape, Social Workers, Test Construction, Test Validity, Victims of Crime

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Singapore; United States

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