Creation of a community violence exposure scale: Accounting for what, who, where, and how often

Suglia, SF; Ryan, L; Wright, RJ

Creation of a community violence exposure scale: Accounting for what, who, where, and how often

Suglia, SF Ryan, L

Wright, RJ

Permalink

Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2008, 21 (5), pp. 479 - 486
Issue Date:: 2008-12-01

Closed Access

	Filename	Description	Size
	2011008498OK.pdf		100.64 kB	Adobe PDF	View/Open

Copyright Clearance Process

Recently Added
In Progress
Closed Access

This item is closed access and not available.

Full metadata record

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Suglia, SF	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ryan, L https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5957-2490	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Wright, RJ	en_US
dc.date.issued	2008-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2008, 21 (5), pp. 479 - 486	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0894-9867	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/26049
dc.description.abstract	Previous research has used the Rasch model, a method for obtaining a continuous scale from dichotomous survey items measuring a single latent construct, to create a scale of community violence exposure. The authors build upon previous work and describe the application of a Rasch model using the continuation ratio model to create an exposure to community violence (ETV) scale including event circumstance information previously shown to modify the impact of experienced events. They compare the Rasch ETV scale to a simpler sum ETV score, and estimate the effect of ETV on child posttraumatic stress symptoms. Incorporating detailed event circumstance information that is grounded in traumatic stress theory may reduce measurement error in the assessment of children's community violence exposure. © 2008 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Traumatic Stress	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1002/jts.20362	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Psychiatry	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Humans	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Models, Statistical	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Cohort Studies	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Psychometrics	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Violence	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Child	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Boston	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Female	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Male	en_US
dc.title	Creation of a community violence exposure scale: Accounting for what, who, where, and how often	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	5	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	21	en_US
utslib.for	010402 Biostatistics	en_US
utslib.for	1701 Psychology	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science/School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.issue	5	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	21	en_US

Abstract:

Previous research has used the Rasch model, a method for obtaining a continuous scale from dichotomous survey items measuring a single latent construct, to create a scale of community violence exposure. The authors build upon previous work and describe the application of a Rasch model using the continuation ratio model to create an exposure to community violence (ETV) scale including event circumstance information previously shown to modify the impact of experienced events. They compare the Rasch ETV scale to a simpler sum ETV score, and estimate the effect of ETV on child posttraumatic stress symptoms. Incorporating detailed event circumstance information that is grounded in traumatic stress theory may reduce measurement error in the assessment of children's community violence exposure. © 2008 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:

http://hdl.handle.net/10453/26049