Development of the Attitude Scale toward the Violence among university students

Objective: Nowadays, violence is not only a global problem but also can effect almost every part of the society with its different dimensions. This study has been done with the aim of developing a scale for determining attitudes of young groups in society towards violence and its different dimensions. Methods: Research has been done between the dates of November 2016-March 2017 and two hundred seventy females, one hundred three males participated in the study (Mean age 21.02 +/- 1.65, min=18, max=36). While developing Attitude Scale towards Violence, validity has been tested with methods of views of specialists and factor analysis and reliability has been tested with the methods of test-retest methods, item analysis based on correlation and internal consistency analysis of Cronbach's alpha. Result: As a result of the analyses, it has been found that scale consists of 52 items and five factors (types of the violence, making violence a usual thing, violence towards women, disapproving the violence, different dimensions of the violence) and it explains 40.98% of total variance. Values of Cronbach's alpha about all of the scale and its subdimensions are respectively 0.91, 0.87, 0.83, 0.83, 0.73, 0.75. Discussion: This five point Likert scale which has been turned into a valid, reliable and standardize form with 52 items can be used in order to determine attitudes of young groups in the society towards violence.