Attitude toward domestic violence: Validation of scale for Indian context

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Ekta Soni (Department of Psychology, Govt. College, Hansi, Hisar, Haryana)
Rakesh Kumar Behamani (Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana)
Sunita Rani (Department of Social Management, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand)

Domestic violence is one of the major problems faced by women at the hands of their families. This study is aimed at constructing a scale to assess the attitude towards domestic violence in the Hindi language for people of India. The sample for this study included 480 married women from various districts of Haryana. Mean age of participants was 30.73 with S.D. 6.42. Mean of their marriage duration was 9.86 and S.D. was 6.96. A pool of 20 items was prepared and administered to 480 married females along with “position of women” dimension of Modernization questionnaire. A separate study was conducted on 194 participants for the purpose of the validity of the scale. The final questionnaire prepared has 16 items with three factors. Reliability and validity of the scale are satisfactory.