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perceptions of dangerous situations scale  

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  • The Perceptions of Dangerous Situations Scale (PDSS) was developed to meet a need to evaluate women's self-defense programs, but it may be useful for other venues, such as martial arts, sexual assault prevention programming, and social science research. The PDSS is based on Albert Bandura's self-efficacy theory—how confident someone feels about accomplishing a challenge is the best predictor of the person's real performance when presented with the actual task. [Source: Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention; Perceptions of Dangerous Situations Scale]

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