Citation

J. Korean Public Police Security Stud. 2017; 14(2): 29-52.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Korean Association for Public Security Administration)

DOI

10.25023/kapsa.14.2.201708.29

PMID

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Abstract

The study purpose of this current study is to investigate factors and correlates influencing college students' perception of psychical violence in various stalking situations. A large body of previous studies examining factors relevant to individual stalking perceptions suggest the past victim-offender relationships is an important correlates in prediction of violence in stalking, This study, therefore, attempts to examine whether the past relationships between victim and offender impact on the perceptions of physical violence. Furthermore, this study examined whether the just world hypothesis is applicable in understanding on the physical violence perceptions. Data used in this study collected from college students who took part in quasi-experimental study. The participants were assigned in one of six different stalking situation signorino groups and required to answer survey questions after reading assigned petty signorino describing a stalking situation. For analyses, this study utilized three separate multi-variate regression analyses. The findings of each model suggest the past victim and offender relationship has impact on college students' perception of physical violence in a stalking situation in that factors significantly correlated with perception of psychical violence were somewhat different among the models. The study implications on the study findings, suggestions, and limitations of this study are discussed in this study.

Language: ko

Keywords

Stalking; College Students; Perception on Physical Violence; the Victim-offender Relationships. Just World hypothesis