NCJ Number
225099
Journal
Journal of Family Violence Volume: 23 Issue: 7 Dated: October 2008 Pages: 647-654
Date Published
October 2008
Length
8 pages
Annotation
This study examined the effects of gender, ethnicity, acculturation level, age, and education level of Korean- and Vietnamese-Americans on their attitudes towards domestic violence.
Abstract
Results indicate that gender, education, and acculturation level emerged as significant predictors of attitudes toward domestic violence in Korean- and Vietnamese-Americans; men, and those who were less acculturated and less educated were more likely to endorse pro-violence attitudes. While there were no significant ethnic differences in the global attitude toward domestic violence between the two immigrant groups, there were specific inter-ethnic differences on select items of the Revised Attitudes toward Wife Abuse Scale (RAWA). No significant relationship between age and attitudes toward domestic violence was found. The findings suggest a need for active community education and outreach targeting of less acculturated and more recent immigrant groups; to garner assistance from religious leaders to help offer community education in partnership with church; to develop culturally sensitive bilingual programs to try to reach out to immigrant men for prevention and to batterers for intervention; and to recruit bilingual and bicultural Asian-American human services workers. Data were collected from a sample of 229 Koreans and 184 Vietnamese recruited from ethnic churches and Buddhist temples, coffee shops, ethnic grocery markets, college campuses, and at the annual Refugee Forum in southern California. Tables, references