Citation

van Dulmen MHM, Belliston LM, Flannery DJ, Singer M. Child. Sch. 2008; 30(2): 93-102.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, National Association of Social Workers [USA], Publisher Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

The purpose of the current study is to advance the psychometric properties of the child-administered 22-item Recent Exposure to Violence Scale (REVS) using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) across three large and ethnically diverse samples of children ranging in age from middle childhood through adolescence. Results of the CFA suggest that a seven-factor solution best represents the REVS. This seven-factor solution supports the idea that victimization and witnessing are conceptually distinct. In addition, the results suggest that violence exposure is context-specific (school, home, neighborhood) and thus highlights the importance of conceptually distinguishing exposure by context. Results of multigroup CFA further suggest that this seven-factor solution is valid and reliable across different student groups of age, gender, and ethnicity.