Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2014: Attitudes to violence against women in

All of the questions included in this report were included in the self-completion section of the survey due to the sensitive nature of the topic, although the majority of the interview is conducted face-to-face by a ScotCen interviewer. [...] When the perpetrator of the abuse was a woman, the difference between genders disappeared, and both men and women were less likely to say that the woman’s behaviour was ‘very seriously wrong’ compared with the man’s behaviour. [...] Half of the respondents to the survey were given a scenario in which the rape was perpetrated by someone the victim had just met at a party, and the other half a scenario in which the rape occurred within a marriage. [...] Half of the respondents were asked about the first scenario, in which the physical abuse was perpetrated by a man (on his wife); and the other half were asked the second scenario, which was exactly the same except that the physical abuse was perpetrated by a woman (on her husband). [...] As in the previous chapter on physical abuse, some respondents’ views were sought when the woman was the victim and the views of other respondents were sought about their attitudes when the man was the victim.