THE ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS OF MEN ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: THE SAMPLE OF BİNGÖL PROVINCE

Abstract

This research is conducted on men and women who reside in the center of Bingöl and their age is 18 and over. The research group is consisted of 524 people 265 of them are women (50.51%) and 259 of them are men (49.42%) residing in Bingöl city center. In this research "Violence Attitude Scale" which is used common for both women and men including 20 - questions in the survey. This article contains the findings only "Violence Attitude Scale" obtained from men. Analysis of the data is performed with SPSS 23.00 program and the studies are completed with 95% confidence level. According to the results obtained from the research; the 20 questions survey of “violence attitude scale” is applied to the men and they mostly answer the following marks as follows: “Men have a right to commit violence against their wife”; “Men should sometimes apply physical violence against their wife; “Men rule the roost in the family, if necessary they can commit violence against their spouses; “the husbands can beat their wife if their spouses interrogate what the husbands say”; “If the women come against their husbands, then there should be absolutely violent against women”. Descriptive statistics, frequency, percentage, aritmatic average, standart deviation and Shapiro-Wilk Test were used to analyses the data