Criminal attitudes to violence: Development and preliminary validation of a scale for male prisoners

Development and testing of the velicer a

Development and testing of the velicer attitudes toward violence scale: evidence for a four-factor model

✍ Craig A. Anderson; Arlin J. Benjamin Jr.; Phillip K. Wood; Angelica M. Bonacci 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 206 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract The factor structure of the Velicer Attitudes Toward Violence Scale [VATVS; Velicer, Huckel and Hansen, 1989] was examined in three studies. Study 1 (__n__=460 undergraduates) found a poor fit for a hierarchical five‐factor model earlier advanced by Velicer et al. [1989], but a good fit