My Exposure to Violence-Revised
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Abstract
My Exposure to Violence - Revised is adapted from the same
measure created for the Project on Human Development in Chicago
Neighborhoods (Buka et al., 1996). The Fast Track Project version
of this revised measure collects information on a student's exposure
to five types of violent events. The events include: 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.
In Year 12, My Exposure to Violence was revised to ask about
violent events that had happened only within the previous two years.
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 occurred within 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 Victimization subscore. Alpha values
for the Victimization and Witnessing Violence subscores and the
Total Score are good.
The Victimization subscore distribution has a floor effect in both
groups with 82% of scores at zero in the normative group, and 70%
at zero in the control group. The distribution of the Total Score
has a slight positive skew, with positive kurtosis in both the normative
group and the control group. The Witnessing Violence subscore distribution
is slightly positively skewed for both groups, with positive kurtosis
in the normative group.
Keywords: Physical Assault, Weapons, Guns, Violence, Physical Threat.
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19 June 2003
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