2024 Volume 20 Pages 41-54
In the study, a pencil version of the Single-Target Implicit Association Test (ST-IAT) was developed because non-permissive attitudes towards criminal and disruptive behaviors may be influenced by social desirability in a questionnaire survey. In the pilot survey, stimulus words for criminal and disruptive behaviors and non-permissive attitudes were collected from 22 general university students. In the main survey, 113 general university students were administered a pencil version of the ST-IAT which was developed from the pilot survey and questionnaires which could measure non-permissive attitudes towards criminal and disruptive behaviors. The results of the analysis showed that general university students were implicitly and explicitly intolerant of criminal and disruptive behaviors, and no gender differences were identified. In addition, the relationships between the non-permissive attitudes towards criminal and disruptive behaviors and social desirability were not significant both explicitly and implicitly. The reliability and validity of the pencil version of ST-IAT for criminal and disruptive behaviors needs to be verified in the future.
