![]() The women's mistrust of other women appears to contribute to their small network size. A large percentage (from 44–75%) of women completing the survey held negative attitudes toward other women, which were reasons they gave for excluding women from their social networks. Two hundred rural and small town women (both drug users and non-users) completed a paper and pencil survey. The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to describe the size, gender, and kin composition of the social network of a larger sample of rural and small-city African American women and (2) to psychometrically evaluate the Brown Attitude toward Women (BATW) scale. In a previous study, a small group of rural African American women were found to have negative attitudes of mistrust of women, which influenced the size and composition of their social network.
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