The measurement of non-violence

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Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
2002, Vol. 8, No. 4, Pages 343-354 (doi:10.1207/S15327949PAC0804_03) The Measurement of Nonviolence: A Review
Daniel M. Mayton II
Department of Psychology, Lewis-Clark State CollegeSilvia Susnjic
Teachers College, Columbia UniversityB. James Palmer
Fall Church, VirginiaDanya J. Peters
Social Psychology Program, University of Nevada, RenoRichard Gierth
School of Law, Seattle UniversityRosalie N. Caswell
Clinical Psychology Program, Eastern Washington University
Nonviolence provides a means for conflict resolution without the negative effects of violence or aggression. Given the potential benefits of its application, several instruments have been developed to measure nonviolent dispositions. This article reviews the measures, which were identified via computer searches of the Psychological Abstracts database. The Pacifism Scale (Elliott, 1980), the Gandhian Personality Scale (Hasan & Khan, 1983), Nonviolence Test (Kool & Sen, 1984), Multidimensional Scales of Nonviolence (Johnson et al, 1998), and the Teenage Nonviolence Test (Mayton, Weedman, Sonnen, Grubb, & Hirose, 1999) were found to assess nonviolence. The review makes recommendations for the use of these measures in peace psychology research.
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