Assessing Community Violence: the Children's Report of Exposure to Violence

Overview

Journal J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Pediatrics
Psychiatry

Date 1995 Feb 1

PMID 7896653

Citations 39

Authors

M R Cooley

S M Turner

D C Beidel

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Abstract

Objective: To describe the development and initial psychometric features of a brief self-report instrument for assessing exposure to community violence, the Children's Report of Exposure to Violence (CREV).

Method: The CREV was administered to 228 schoolchildren between the ages of 9 and 15 years. A subset (n = 42) was retested 2 weeks later.

Results: The CREV has good test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and construct validity. Analyses performed by race and gender revealed no differences in frequency of exposure to community violence as assessed by the CREV.

Conclusions: This initial report suggests that the CREV has promise as a self-report questionnaire, and its construction represents a significant advance in the development of psychometrically sound instruments for use in community violence research.

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