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Exposure to Violence (ETV) - Subject Release

This measure appears in the following time-points: Release.

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Description of Measure

The Exposure to Violence Inventory (ETV; Selner-O'Hagan, Kindlon, Buka, Raudenbush, & Earls, 1998) was modified for this study to assess the frequency of exposure to violent events. In the release interview, items from the ETV document the types of violence the adolescent experienced during an institutional stay. These include incidents that are experienced (i.e., Victim - 7 items, e.g., "How often at X have you been chased where you thought you might be seriously hurt?") and/or observed (i.e., Witnessed - 7 items, e.g., "How often at X have you seen another resident being raped, attempted rape, or any other type of sexual attack?"), as well as self-reported acts (i.e., Self-report - 7 items, e.g., "How often at X have you attacked another resident with a weapon like a knife, box cutter, bat, chain, or broken bottle?"). Two additional questions inquire about whether the youth has attempted or has witnessed another resident attempt suicide during their stay.

The ETV was found to have adequate internal consistency at the baseline time-point. A multidimensional two-factor CFA model where certain measurement errors were allowed to covary was fit to the baseline data. The values generated from this analysis can be found the subject baseline codebook section.

The following summary scores regarding violence exposure during their stay in the institution are available, with higher scores indicating a greater exposure to violence:

Two individual items are also available:

Two of the subscales in this measure ("total violence score - witnessed" and "total violence score - victim") were used in the development of the eight dimensions of organizational functioning. A full description of the dimensions can be found in the "Dimensions of Organizational Functioning" codebook section.

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