Citation

Swartout KM, Flack WF, Cook SL, Olson LN, Smith PH, White JW. Psychol. Trauma 2019; 11(5): 495-504.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/tra0000395

PMID

30080069

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: In response to The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault's recommendations, the Administrator-Researcher Campus Climate Collaborative (ARC3) has curated an empirically sound, no-cost campus climate survey for U.S. institutions of higher education. The ARC3 survey contains 19 modules that assess a range of Title IX violations, including sexual harassment, dating violence, and sexual misconduct victimization and perpetration; sexual misconduct prevention efforts, resources, and responses; and key predictors and possible outcomes of sexual misconduct. This article describes the ARC3 survey development and pilot test psychometric data.

METHOD: A total of 909 students attending one of three U.S. universities responded to the survey; 85% of students who began the survey completed it. Students completed the ARC3 survey in slightly less than 30 min, on average.

RESULTS: The majority of measures produced evidence for at least acceptable internal consistency levels (α >.70), with only two short item sets having marginal reliability (α =.65-.70). Correlations among scales matched expectations set by the research literature. Students generally did not find the survey distressing; in fact, students viewed the climate assessment as important and personally meaningful.

CONCLUSION: The survey performed sufficiently well in pilot testing to recommend its use with U.S. college populations. (PsycINFO Database Record

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