Normality, Justifiability and Abusiveness in Physical and Psychological Behaviours

Abstract

Significant differences in the judgement of levels of normality, justifiability and abusiveness were generally found on severely physical and psychological abuse variables such as hitting and threatening. Different levels of frequencies on tolerance judgments for different variables between the different ethnic groups were found. Most of the significant differences, both between gender and ethnic groups, concerned personal rather than participants' perception of their cultural views.