Young Adults Attitude Towards Acid Attacks- A Gender Based Violence

Acid attack is a violent assault that involves throwing or using of acid intentionally to harm, kill, torture or disfigure a person, usually females. Women in male dominated countries like India faces this vitriol attack. Acid attack in women is a burning issue in the present scenario. Therefore this descriptive research study aimed to understand the attitude of young adults towards acid attacks. A total number of 240 male and female young adults were selected as sample of research through Population Proportion sampling method from two colleges of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. To achieve the research objective, a tool namely Attitude Scale on Gender-based violence (A-GBV) was developed and thereafter reliability and validity of the tool was calculated before its application. Suitable statistical methods i.e., frequency, percentage, p value and correlation were applied on collected data to derive the research results. After analysis and comparing the data, the finding of the research reflected strong disagreement towards acid attack. A significant association was found between attitude of young adults towards acid attack and selected independent variable i.e., Age, Gender, College and Family Income.