The Attitudes Towards Dating Violence Scales: Development and Initial Validation

This study describes the development and validation of three Attitudes Towards Male Dating Violence (AMDV) Scales and three Attitudes Towards Female Dating Violence (AFDV) Scales. These scales measure attitudes toward use of psychological, physical, and sexual dating violence, respectively, by boys and by girls. Eight hundred twenty-three students from grades 7, 9, and 11 participated in the validation study. All six scales have good internal consistencies. As predicted, students were more accepting of girls' use of violence than of boys' use of violence, and boys were more accepting of violence than were girls. The six scales were positively correlated with traditional attitudes toward gender roles and with each other, providing evidence for their construct validity. Higher scores on the AMDV Scales were related to boys' past use of violence in dating relationships and to their having aggressive friends, supporting their criterion-related validity. Higher scores on the AFDV Scales were associated with girls' past use of dating violence but not with their having aggressive friends, providing partial support for their criterion-related validity. Singly or in combination, the Attitudes Towards Dating Violence Scales can be used to increase our understanding of the development and maintenance of violence-supportive attitudes in adolescents of all ages.     

Book reviews

Lawrence L. Whetten (ed.), The Future of Soviet Military Power. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers, 1977. vii+190 pp. £9.75.

Lawrence L. Whetten (ed.), The Political Implications of Soviet Military Power. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers, 1977. ii+183 pp. £9.75.

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, The Soviet Union and International Oil Politics. New York: Columbia UP, 1977. 389 pp. $20.15.

Roy D. Laird, Joseph Hajda, Betty A. Laird (eds.), The Future of Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: The 1976–1980 Five Year Plans. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1977 (Outside the United States— Tonbridge, Kent: Ernest Benn).

Ronald J. Hill, Soviet Political Elites: the Case of Tiraspol. London: Martin Robertson, 1977. x+226 pp.

Karl W. Ryavec, Implementation of Soviet Economic Reforms: Political, Organizational and Social Processes. New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1975‐ 300 pp.

Alvin Z. Rubinstein, Red Star on the Nile. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1977. 383 pp. 20.10 or £8.10 (paperback).

Raymond Hutchings, Soviet Science, Technology, Design. Interaction and Convergence. London: OUP for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1976. x+320 pp. £12.00.

Walter Sablinsky, The Road to Bloody Sunday (Father Gapon and the St. Petersburg Massacre of 1905). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1976. $18.50.

Robert J. Brym, The Jewish Intelligentsia and Russian Marxism. A Sociological Study of Intellectual Radicalism and Ideological Divergence. London: Macmillan Press, 1978. viii+157 pp. £8.95.

Vera S. Dunham, In Stalin's Time: Middleclass Values in Soviet Fiction. London: CUP, 1976. 283 pp. £10.00.

Gerd Meyer, Bürokratischer Sozialismus. Eine Analyse des sowjetischen Herrschaftssystems. Stuttgart: Frommann‐Holzboog, 1977. 331 pp.

R. W. Davies (ed.), The Soviet Union. London: Allen & Unwin, 1978. 191 pp. £6.50; £2.95 (flexicovers).     

The Dispossessing 2016 Coup d’État in Brazil

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society - In 2016 Brazil’s Senate ousted the popularly re-elected President Dilma Rousseff, who had been accused of budget mismanagement under...     

Competing motives in the formation of american public administration

The intellectual study of public administration was developed by two separate groups with two distinctive orientations to the field, called here the “Public Service” and the “Public Management” orientations. Both orientations have coexisted in public administration despite their differences largely because they each addresses some of the weaknesses of the other. The continuing tug of war between the orientations provides much of public administration's confusion over its sense of purpose and identity, but also much of its dynamic nature.     

Profit sharing and job anxiety: moving public policy toward a win-win solution

Interest in profit sharing as a form of flexible pay is part of a larger interest in more flexible personnel practices. The interest in flexibility, in turn, reflects a perceived increase in product-market uncertainty. Where in the past employers have offered job security - due to legal mandate or practice - increased product market uncertainty makes such job “insurance” more costly. Job security protections can be viewed as an employee option to sell labor at the going wage, even when its value to the firm has dropped. As is true of financial options, the cost increases with the variability of the value of the underlying asset. Recent political trends in the U.S. suggest that there are social costs to the flexibility in American labor markets about which mainstream politicians have little to offer.