My Exposure to Violence
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Abstract
My Exposure to Violence is adapted from the same measure
developed for the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
(Buka et al., 1996). The Fast Track Project version of this measure
collects information on a student's exposure to five types of violent
events including: beating, attack with a weapon, gun shot, accident
or other event resulting in death or serious injury, and threat
by another person with serious injury. For each type of event, the
respondent is also asked whether the event occurred at home, at
school, or in the neighborhood; whether the event ever occurred,
or occurred in the past year; and whether the event occurred more
than once. Response choices for all items except event frequency
are "Yes (1)" and "No (0)." The item that asks
for frequency of each violent event ("Has this happened once
or more than once?") has the response choices "Once (1)"
and "More than once (2)."
This measure contains two question sets for each type of violent
event. One question set elicits information from the respondent
as a witness to the event. The other set asks for the same information
when the respondent is a victim of a violent event. There are two
subscales and a total scale. The subscales are: Witnessing Violence
and Victimization.
T-tests of means show significant differences between the normative
and control groups for the Witnessing Violence subscore, the Victimization
subscore, and the Total Score. Alpha values for both subscores and
the Total Score are good. These scales should be useful, depending
on the construct of interest.
The distribution of Total Score is slightly positively skewed in
both the normative and control groups. In the normative group, the
Victimization subscore distribution has a floor effect, with 56%
of scores at zero, and the Witnessing Violence distribution is slightly
positively skewed. In the control group, the Victimization score
is slightly positively skewed.
Keywords: Physical Assault, Weapons, Guns, Violence, Physical Threat.
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19 June 2003
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