Recognizing Warning Signs of Dating Violence: The Contributions of Gender Role Orientation and Hypergender Constructs

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorO'Brien, Karen M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKearney, Monica Sherrien_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-18T05:52:27Z
dc.date.available2015-09-18T05:52:27Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study advanced knowledge regarding dating violence by examining factors related to attitudes towards dating violence as well as the less investigated ability to recognize early warning signs of dating violence using a sample of college women and men. Specifically, this study explored the contributions of expressivity and instrumentality as well as hyperfemininity and hypermasculinity in predicting college students’ attitudes toward dating violence and their ability to recognize risk of dating abuse after controlling for prior education about and experience with dating violence. Four hundred and thirty-three heterosexual, unmarried, undergraduate women and 108 heterosexual, unmarried, undergraduate men between the ages of 18 and 22 completed the study. For women, hyperfemininity was associated with less acceptance of dating violence and better risk recognition. For men, hypermasculinity was the strongest predictor of acceptance of dating violence and inability to recognize warning signs of dating violence. These findings can be used to inform future interventions to reduce dating violence among college students.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M21D1G
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/17040
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGender studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDating violenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGender rolesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHyperfemininityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHypermasculinityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWarning signs of dating violenceen_US
dc.titleRecognizing Warning Signs of Dating Violence: The Contributions of Gender Role Orientation and Hypergender Constructsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Kearney_umd_0117N_16488.pdf
Size:
1.25 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

UMD Theses and Dissertations
Psychology Theses and Dissertations