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Title:

Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Behaviors, and Influences Among Youths (2nd Ed)

Alternate Title:

A Compendium of Assessment Tools Second Edition

Url:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/pdf/YV/YV_Compendium.pdf

Creator:

Monica Swahn
Linda L. Dahlberg
Susan B. Toal
Christopher B. Behrens

Publisher:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

Description: This 373-page compendium, available as a pdf, provides researchers and prevention specialists with a set of tools to assess violence-related beliefs, behaviors, and influences, as well as to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence. Although this compendium contains more than 170 measures, it does not claim to be an exhaustive listing of available measures.

Most of the measures in this compendium are intended for use with youths between the ages of 11 and 24 years, to assess such factors as serious violent and delinquent behavior, conflict resolution strategies, social and emotional competencies, peer influences, parental monitoring and supervision, family relationships, exposure to violence, collective efficacy, and neighborhood characteristics. The compendium also contains a number of scales and assessments developed for use with children between the ages of 5 and 10 years, to measure factors such as aggressive fantasies, beliefs supportive of aggression, attributional biases, prosocial behavior, and aggressive behavior. When parent and teacher versions of assessments are available, they are included as well.

Classification:

CRE Practice Areas -- Violence Prevention
Researcher Resources -- Research Instruments
Administrator Resources

Date Issued:

2005

Resource Type:

Text (DCMI Type Vocabulary)

Format:

pdf

Audience:

Researcher

Language:

English