Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Journal of Family Violence
Published in: Journal of Family Violence 1/2007

01-01-2007 | Original Article

Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women In Men of South Asian Ancestry: Are Acculturation and Gender Role Attitudes Important Factors?

Authors: Surbhi Bhanot, Charlene Y. Senn

Published in: Journal of Family Violence | Issue 1/2007

Login to get access

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes toward violence against women in men of South Asian ancestry. Studies conducted on other cultural groups have examined separately the influence of gender role attitudes and acculturation on violence against women. In the current study, we proposed that acculturation and attitudes towards violence against women were related through the mediation of gender role attitudes. One hundred male South Asian university students were administered questionnaires that measured their acculturation, gender role attitudes and attitudes towards wife beating. Results indicated that gender role attitudes fully mediated the relationship between acculturation and attitudes towards violence against women. This means that lower acculturation is only related to higher acceptance of wife assault because lower levels of acculturation are related to more restrictive and conservative beliefs about the roles of men and women.
Literature
Ayyub, R. (2000). Domestic violence in the South Asian Muslim immigrant population in the United States. Journal of Social Distress and The Homeless, 9(3), 237–248.CrossRef
Baron, J., & Kenny, G. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(6), 1173–1181.PubMedCrossRef
Berry, J. W. (1992). Acculturation and adaptation in a new society. International Migration, 30, 69–86.CrossRef
Bui, H., & Morash, M. (1999). Domestic violence in the Vietnamese immigrant community: An exploratory study. Violence Against Women, 5(7), 769–795.CrossRef
Bussey, K., & Bandura, A. (1999). Social cognitive theory of gender development and differentiation. Psychological Review, 106(4), 676–713.PubMedCrossRef
Champion, J. D. (1996). Woman abuse, assimilation, and self-concept in a rural Mexican American community. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 18, 508–521.CrossRef
Dobash, R. E., & Dobash, R. P. (1979). Violence against wives: A case against the patriarchy. New York: Free Press.
Finn, J. (1986). The relationship between sex role attitudes and attitudes supporting marital violence. Sex Roles, 14(5/6), 235–244.
Ganguly, A. (1998). Predictors of attitudes towards wife beating among Asian Indians in America. (Doctoral dissertation, California School of Professional Psychology, 1998). Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 58(9-B), 5188.
Ghuman, P. S. (1991). Best or worst of two worlds? A study of Asian adolescents. Educational Research, 33(2), 121–132.
Ghuman, P. S. (2000). Acculturation of South Asian adolescents in Australia. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 70, 305–316.PubMedCrossRef
Ginorio, A. B., Gutierrez, L., Cauce, A. M., & Acosta, M. (1995). Psychological issues for Latinas. In H. Landrine (Ed.), Bringing cultural diversity to feminist psychology: Theory, research, and practice (pp. 241–263). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.CrossRef
Hanson, R., Cadsky, O., Hanis, A., & Lalonde, C. (1997). Correlates of battering among 997 men: Family history, adjustment and attitudinal references. Violence and Victims, 12(3), 191–208.PubMed
Heise, L., Ellsberg, M., & Gottemoeller, M. (1999). Ending violence against women. Population Reports Series L (11). Retrieved November 10, 2003 from www.jhueep.org/pr/l11edsum.shtmlmen
Jasinski, J. (1998). The role of acculturation in wife assault. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 20(2), 175–191.CrossRef
Kim, J. Y., & Sung, K. (2000). Conjugal violence in Korean American families: A residue of the cultural tradition. Journal of Family Violence, 15(4), 331–345.CrossRef
Lim, S., & Howard, R. (1998). Antecedents of sexual and non-sexual aggression in young Singaporean men. Personality and Individual Differences, 25(6), 1163–1182.CrossRef
Lown, E., & Vega, N. (2001). Prevalence and predictors of physical partner abuse among Mexican-American women. American Journal of Public Health, 91(3), 441–445.PubMedCrossRef
Mackinnon, D., Lockwood, C. M., Hoffman, J. M., West, S. G., & Sheets, V. (2002). A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects. Psychological Methods, 7(1), 83–104.PubMedCrossRef
Mehrotra, M. (1999). The social construction of wife abuse: Experiences of Asian Indian women in the United States. Violence Against Women, 5(6), 619–640.CrossRef
Murnen, S., Wright, C., & Kaluzny, G. (2002). If “boys will be boys,” then girls will be victims? A meta-analytic review of the research that relates masculine ideology to sexual aggression. Sex Roles, 46(11–12), 359–375.CrossRef
Muehlenhard, C., Friedman, D. E., & Thomas, C. M. (1985). Is rape justifiable? The effects of dating activity, who initiated, who paid, and men’s attitudes towards women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 9(3), 297–309.CrossRef
Nayak, M. B., Byrne, C., Martin, M., & Abraham, A. (2003). Attitudes toward violence against women: A cross-nation study. Sex Roles, 49(7–8), 333–342.CrossRef
Nelson, M. (1988). Reliability, validity, and cross-cultural comparisons for the Simplified Attitudes Towards Women Scale. Sex Roles, 18(5/6), 289–296.CrossRef
Proite, R., Dannells, M., & Benton, S. (1993). Gender, sex role stereotypes, and the attribution of responsibility for date and acquaintance rape. Journal of College Student Development, 34(6), 411–417.
Reynolds, W. (1982). Development of reliable and valid short forms of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 38(1), 119–125.CrossRef
Saunders, D., Lynch, A., Grayson, M., & Linz, D. (1987). The Inventory of Beliefs about Wife Beating: The construction and initial validation of a measure of beliefs and attitudes. Violence and Victims, 2(1), 39–57.PubMed
Sorenson, S., & Telles, C. (1991). Self-reports of spousal violence in a Mexican-American and Non-Hispanic White population. Violence and Victims, 6, 3–15.PubMed
Statistics Canada. (1996). Total population by visible minority population for Canada. Retrieved November 15, 2003, from http://​www.​statcan.​ca/​english/​census96/​feb17/​vmcan.​pdf
Talbani, A., & Hasanali, P. (2000). Adolescent females between tradition and modernity: Gender role socialization in South Asian immigrant culture. Journal of Adolescence, 23(5), 615–627.PubMedCrossRef
United Nations. (2000). Violence against women in South Asia. New York: United Nations Publications.
Yick, A. (2000). Predictors of physical spousal/intimate violence in Chinese American families. Journal of Family Violence, 15(3), 249–267.CrossRef
Yllo, K. A. (1983). Sexual equality and violence against wives in American states. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 14, 67–86.
Yllo, K. A. (1984). The status of women, marital equality, and violence against wives. Journal of Family Issues, 5, 307–320.CrossRef
Metadata
Title
Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women In Men of South Asian Ancestry: Are Acculturation and Gender Role Attitudes Important Factors?
Authors
Surbhi Bhanot
Charlene Y. Senn
Publication date
01-01-2007
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Family Violence / Issue 1/2007
Print ISSN: 0885-7482
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2851
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-006-9060-0

Other articles of this Issue 1/2007

Journal of Family Violence 1/2007 Go to the issue

Original Article

The Influence of Domestic Violence on Preschooler Behavior and Functioning

Original Article

Romantic Relational Aggression: What about Gender?

Original Article

The Working Alliance in Intervention for Partner Violence Perpetrators: Recent Research and Theory

Original Article

Differences in Effects of Domestic Violence Between Latina and Non-Latina Women

Original Article

Non-Sexual Delinquency in Juvenile Sexual Offenders: The Mediating and Moderating Influences of Emotional Empathy