Youth Violence and Victimization: Predicting Responses to Peer Aggression, South Carolina, 2017-2018 (ICPSR 37644)

Version Date: Nov 15, 2021

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Principal Investigator(s):
Kelly Lynn Mulvey, North Carolina State University; Matthew J. Irvin, University of South Carolina

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37644.v1

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Summary

Youth violence is violence or aggression perpetuated by or targeted against youth and includes many forms such as violent crime, physical violence (e.g., fighting, use of firearms), and the numerous manifestations of bullying (e.g., overt, social/relational, and cyber bullying). New research is needed to enhance our understanding of the factors and processes associated with youth violence. This research focuses on key factors within individuals and multiple contexts that may robustly predict the perpetration and amelioration of violence among youth but that have received scant attention in previous research, especially in concert with each other. Specifically, the factors within individuals the investigators examined include cognition (e.g., attitudes towards retaliation and bystander intervention) and social-emotional adjustment (e.g., rejection sensitivity, affect, aggressive behavior and victimization) while the multiple contexts will include peer (e.g., characteristics and status of peer group, sociometric and perceived popularity), school (e.g., school connectedness, student-teacher relationship), and family contexts (e.g., attachment, family hostility). This dataset seeks to aid scholars hoping to understand adolescents' attitudes and judgments surrounding peer aggression, with attention both to attitudes surrounding bystander intervention to stop aggression and retaliation when exposed to such aggression. This project is a year-long longitudinal study with 6th graders and 9th graders in order to identify factors related to responses to peer aggression and to examine these relations over time.

Citation

Mulvey, Kelly Lynn, and Irvin, Matthew J. Youth Violence and Victimization: Predicting Responses to Peer Aggression, South Carolina, 2017-2018. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-11-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37644.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (2016-R2-CX-0056)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

None

Restrictions

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, some of the data files in this collection are restricted from general dissemination. To obtain these restricted files, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2017-09-01 -- 2018-06-01

Date of Collection

2017-09-01 -- 2018-06-01
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Study Purpose

This study seeks to enhance understanding of the factors and processes associated with youth violence.

Study Design

This project is a year-long longitudinal study with 6th graders and 9th graders in order to identify factors related to responses to peer aggression and to examine these relations over time.

Sample

All 6th and 9th graders at participating schools were invited to participate.

Time Method

Longitudinal

Universe

6th and 9th grade students at select schools in South Carolina.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

IRB approved informed consent letters were sent home to families of all 6th and 9th graders at the schools approximately one week prior to data collection, and all students who had parental consent also assented to participate. The Time 1 total participation rate was 78% of eligible students (867 students); for Time 2 66% of initial participants were retained (573 students).

Presence of Common Scales

Adolescent Measure of Empathy and Sympathy (Vossen et al., 2015)

Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire- Revised (Capaldi and Rothbart, 1992)

Justice Sensitivity Inventory (Bondü and Krahé, 2015)

Childhood Rejection Sensitivity questionnaire (Downey et al., 1998)

Family Management Questionnaire Parent-Child Attachment (Rochester Youth Development et al., 1991)

Perceptions of Discrimination (Eccles et al., 2006; Wong et al., 2003)

School Climate Measure (Zullig et al., 2015)

Peer Nominations (Rodkin and Ahn, 2009)

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Original Release Date

2021-11-15

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Weight

Not applicable.

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