Chwee Lye Chng (Dec. 1999) An Assessment of College Students' Attitudes and Empathy Toward Rape. College Student Journal
Methods:
The study is a descriptive cross-sectional survey implemented to assess students' attitudes toward rape and empathy toward survivors of rape. A pilot study using 30 college students with a two-week interval was used to establish reliability of the ATR and RES. Subject's birth day, month, and first three digits of their phone numbers were used as identifiers for the retest portion of the pilot study. A two-tailed t test was performed comparing test scores across the 2-week interval. Statistical analysis found a 1.0 correlation for demographic data, .91 alpha reliability coefficient for the ATR, and a .80 alpha reliability coefficient for the RES. Therefore, the ATR and RES were deemed reliable for the study.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study is to assess rape attitudes and empathy levels of college students in a selected university......
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