DOI: 10.3886/icpsr37644.v1
title: Youth Violence and Victimization: Predicting Responses to Peer Aggression, South Carolina, 2017-2018
title: Version 1

description: 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.
description: This study seeks to enhance understanding of the factors and processes associated with youth violence.
description: 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.
description: Not applicable.
description: 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).
description: 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)
description: All 6th and 9th graders at participating schools were invited to participate.
description: Datasets: DS1: Youth Violence and Victimization: Predicting Responses to Peer Aggression, South Carolina, 2017-2018
description: 6th and 9th grade students at select schools in South Carolina. Smallest Geographic Unit: None
description: web-based survey