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Assessing community violence: the children's report of exposure to violence
M R Cooley1, S M Turner, D C Beidel
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.
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.