The Relationship Between Nursing Students’ Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women, Gender Roles and Self-Esteem

Year 2024, Issue: 6, 9 - 14, 13.11.2024

Merve Tuncer , Didem Adatepe

https://doi.org/10.26650/CURARE.2024.1531500

Abstract

Objective: This study aims to determine the relationship between nursing students' attitudes towards violence against women, gender roles, and self-esteem.

Method: The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 100 nursing students who met the research criteria. The study data were obtained using a 25-item information form, the Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Scale, the Gender Roles Attitudes Scale, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale-Short Form. Descriptive statistical methods (minimum, maximum, mean, frequency, standard deviation) and Spearman's correlation tests were used to evaluate the relationship between the scales.

Results: The mean age of the students was 20.76±1.49. It was found that 47.0% of the students had witnessed violence, and 21% had been subjected to violence. The scale scores showed that the mean score of the Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Scale was 132.83±10.06; the mean score of the Gender Roles Attitudes Scale was 161.85±14.41; the mean score of the positive sub-dimension of the Rosenberg SelfEsteem Scale-Short Form was 54.60±9.23, and the mean score of the negative sub-dimension was -20.65±9.69. According to the correlations between the scales, there was a positive significant relationship between the Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Scale and the Gender Roles Attitudes Scale (r=.84, p<.050); and a negative significant relationship between the Gender Roles Attitudes Scale and the negative subdimension of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale-Short Form (r=-.20, p<.050).

Conclusion: It was determined that the students had contemporary attitudes towards violence against women and gender roles, and that students with opposing attitudes towards violence against women had more contemporary attitudes towards gender roles. While the students’ self-esteem was found to be high, students with contemporary attitudes towards gender roles had lower negative self-esteem.

Keywords

Gender roles, nursing student, self-esteem, violence

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