The effect of university students’ violence tendency on their attitude towards domestic violence and the factors affecting domestic violence attitudes

Background: the aim of this study was to investigate the tendency of violence and the factorsaffecting their attitudes towards domestic violence in university students studying health sciences.methods: the research was conducted with a total of 318 voluntary students studying in the senioryear of nursing department in faculty of nursing, ege university, turkey and bearing theappropriate criteria for the participation and data were collected in the period june-july 2017.“personal information form”, “violence tendency scale (vts)” and “domestic violence attitudescale (dvas)” developed by the researchers have been used in data collection.results: the research was conducted with a total of 318 students with average age of22.41±1.49. average vts scores of the students were found to be 28.13±6.28. the factoreffective on violence tendency has been determined to be the student’s sex. dvas of the studentshas been found to be 19.90±6.76.conclusions: violence phenomenon directed to youth was conducted on senior university studentsbeing a more developed group socially. however, young people’s exposure to violence wasfound high (42.8%). nevertheless, their scores on violence tendencies and domestic violenceattitude were ascertained low.