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The questions below ask about common attitudes toward domestic violence. While we all know the politically or socially correct answer, please answer how you truly think and feel. To answer, put a number on the line before each question indicating how strongly you agree or disagree with each statement.

Character blame
1. Some women unconsciously want their partners to control them.
2. If a woman continues living with a man who beat her, then it' s her fault if she is beaten again.
3. Many women have an unconscious wish to be dominated by their partners.

Response Options:
7-point Likert scale
Strongly disagree - 1
Strongly agree - 7

4. If a woman goes back to the abuser, how much is that due to something in her character?

Response Options:
7-point Likert scale
Not at all - 1
Entirely - 7

5. I hate to say it, but if a woman stays with the man who abused her, she basically deserves what she gets.
6. I don't have much sympathy for a battered woman who keeps going back to the abuser.
7. If a woman doesn't like it, she can leave.

Behavior blame
8. Making a man jealous is asking for it.
9. Women can avoid physical abuse if they give in occasionally.
10. Women who flirt are asking for it.
11. Women instigate most family violence.
12. A lot of domestic violence occurs because women keep on arguing about things with their partners.

Exoneration
13. When a man is violent it is because he lost of his temper.
14. Abusive men lose control so much that they don't know what they're doing.
15. Domestic violence results from a momentary loss of temper.

Minimization
16. Most domestic violence involves mutual violence between the partners.
17. Domestic violence rarely happens in my neighborhood.
18. Domestic violence does not affect many people.

Response Options:
7-point Likert scale
Strongly disagree - 1
Strongly agree - 7